click performance

[Amit Dror]

Robert,

The following line is taken from the Click Change Log/Software History
Version 1.2.0:
"Added a polling Intel EEPro 1000 gigabit driver, which can receive or send
up to 1.3 million 64 byte packets per second."

We are using Smartbits system to generate/measure the forwarding rate.
Smartbits should be able to perform up to full gigabit capacity.

I don't have the configuration file accessible at the moment, but it was
generated by the make-ip-conf.pl script.

I'm starting to suspect that the difference may be caused because of the PCI
bus. We are using a single 64bit/33MHz PCI bus.

Thanks,


Amit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Morris [mailto:rtm at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu]
> Sent: Thu, June 14, 2001 6:14 PM
> To: Amit Dror
> Cc: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: click performance
>
>
> Amit,
>
> Where did you see a report of Click forwarding 1.3 million packets
> per second?
>
> What are you using to generate the packets? What are you using
> to measure the forwarding rate?
>
> Can you send us the exact Click configuration you are using?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> > From: "Amit Dror" <amit at checkpoint.com>
> > To: <click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> > Subject: click performance
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:05:42 +0200
> > Importance: Normal
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we have set-up an environment with a click router and Intel
> EEPro 1000
> > gigabit cards.
> >
> > Running a test of 64 byte packet stream we have reached
> only 325,000 packets
> > per second with the following hardware configuration:
> >
> > IBM Netfinity 4500R
> > Dual Intel PIII 1000Mhz (booted UP kernel) , 256MB RAM
> > 2 x Intel PRO/1000 NICs
> >
> > The click router is running a simple IP router
> configuration generated by
> > make-ip-conf.pl
> >
> > As this is quite far from the reported 1.3 million 64 byte
> packets per
> > second result  we try to understand what causes the difference.
> >
> > Is it possible to get the hardware configuration in which
> the 1.3 million 64
> > byte packets per second was measured ?
> >
> > Do you have any idea about what may cause this difference ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Amit Dror, Software Developer,
> > Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. http://www.checkpoint.com
> > Phone: +972-3-7534532, Fax: +972-3-7534893
> >
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