Re: http://www.nfr.net/nfr/mail-archive/nfr-users/1999/Feb/0110.html

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:59:01 +0100 (BST)

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> The bsd machines were sniffing 45,000 packets per second. Linux -- in
> the default configuration -- can't even receive 45,000 packets per
> second, because of the default setting of
> /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog.

I've benched a Linux box with the standard settings doing over 55,000 packets
per second _routing_ not just receiving.

The fun with NFR isnt the device backlog, its that BSD has a hack built into
it basically solely for sniffing tools to use, and Linux doesn't.

Alan

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