Zebra Router???

Mon Apr 21 16:00:58 UTC 2003

Well, zebra will have very little to do with the routing performance on the
box.  In fact if you are just doing a simple packet forward with no routing
protocols there is no reason to run a routing daemon of any sort.

Your limitations are the box itself, and the FreeBSD kernel.  For just
forwarding packets from one side to the other it should perform quite nicely.
Even then there are a number of factors that affect throughput, including packet
size, number of clients, etc....

if you start adding packet filters and what not you may have to be a little
more careful in how you add them so as not to affect performance overly.
I don't see any reason that you shouldn't be able to basically saturate
a 100Mb line with a box of this speed, although I have no publishable information
to back me up.

> 
> Hi All,
> I'm trying to find out what peoples experiences regarding the throughput
> of Zebra on a FreeBSD Box.
> 
> My configuration is as follows:
> 
> Intel Pentium III 1.40G
> 1 Gig RAM
> 2x <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> (one internal, one external) on
> board.
> 
> This box is running as a simple static router, i.e. one subnet on the
> inside, Internet feed on the other side. No BGP, no RIP, no OSPF. Pretty
> simple, eh?
> 
> So the goal is to know the bandwidth limitation of this router. Any ideas?
> I've heard numbers of 35Meg, 40 Meg, etc, however, I have not recieved a
> good reason backing it up. Can anyone offer some input on this?
> 
> Regards,
> Tom Daly
> 
> -- 
> Tom Daly
> tom at dyndns.org
> Chief Infrastructure Officer
> Dynamic DNS Network Services
> http://www.dyndns.org/
> 

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