fastforward/routing: a 3 million packet-per-second system?

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 22.07.2014 19:18, John Jasen wrote:
> Feedback and/or tips and tricks more than welcome.
> 
> Outstanding questions:
> 
> Would increasing the number of processor cores help?

AFAIR, increasing the number of cores will lead to worse results.
With patched and tuned FreeBSD we able to route (with fastforwarding)
about 7 Mpps IPv4 and 2.5Mpps IPv6. But the stock system is far from
even half of this results.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov