Linux Router KIT

Fri Oct 30 19:14:42 UTC 1998

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes. 
> > No longer applies. In fact Linux is now faster than BSD up to about
> > 60-70,000 routes. BSD is faster at about 200,000. In between its about
> > even.
> Where/how are you doing simulations with that many routes?

These are just numbers reported by Alan Cox and Alexey Kuznetsov.

> Feeding full routes to a linux 2.0.3x box running gated, I get:
> # cat /proc/net/route | wc -l
>   54677
> and that command takes 13s to complete.

Well thats great for benchmarking procfs B)

I wonder how long 'netstat -rn' takes on *BSD with 54k routes.

-Dan