[Xorp-users] Performance test

Adam Greenhalgh a.greenhalgh at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Sun Dec 2 00:47:29 PST 2007


I would recommend you upgrade your kernel version to one of the new
2.6 kernels as there have been improvements in the kernel since 2.4.25
.

adam

On 01/12/2007, José María Martín <manjon at terra.es> wrote:
> First al all, thank you for the answers
>
> I am goint to do a data charge in a lab environment. The data will be
> multicast an unicast data flow.
> Xorp is running on a Linux 2.4.25 kernel
> I have different scenarios:
> 1. Static routing with xorp routing multicast (Pim-SM) being RP and not
> being RP. In the last case I will use bootstrap mechanism against two
> Nortel/Cisco routers.
> 2. OSPF routing (not xorp) and the same multicast environment.
>
> My hardware is intel xeon 2.8 ghz 1 gb ram and a gigabit ethernet
> network card. This server is running a checkpoint firewall too.
> In the first attempt the system crash ( crash = the source packets
> didn´t reach the destination machine) with 100.000 multicast packets
> flow. I am using 1.0 xorp version.
>
> Be run grateful for your opinions and ideas
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Chema
>
>
> Pavlin Radoslavov escribió:
> >> Is there any performance test running over xorp? what is the throughput of xorp? Have you got any specifications about it?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Chema
> >>
> >
> > Chema,
> >
> > Please clarify what kind of performance.
> > If you have forwarding performance in mind, this is defined by the
> > underlying system, because XORP is only the control plane.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pavlin
> >
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