Router

http://static.usenix.org/events/inmwren10/tech/full_papers/Liao.pdf Paper that describes fast user-mode routing ( ~90% speed of kernel mode) in Linux

http://static.usenix.org/events/inmwren10/tech/full_papers/Liao.pdf Paper that describes fast user-mode routing ( ~90% speed of kernel mode) in Linux

http://static.usenix.org/events/inmwren10/tech/full_papers/Liao.pdf Paper that describes fast user-mode routing ( ~90% speed of kernel mode) in Linux

http://forum.nag.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=59199&st=20&p=629305&#entry629305

http://forum.nag.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=59199&st=20&p=629305&#entry629305 russian ISP/network operators community forum: a post with live stats from a system system that routes ~ 10G/1.9Mpps of live traffic on Intel X520-2 82559EB card, 2 x Xeon E5620

Also see http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/io_engine/index.html and http://www.ndsl.kaist.edu/~kyoungsoo/papers/2010-lanman-100Gbps.pdf Using latest x86 hardware and GPU to build a 100GB pc router / possible theoretically, but as of now, is not coming to an ISP near you/

http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Routers SixXS – global v6 network of peering exchange points

http://ccie-in-3-months.blogspot.com/2010/02/get-your-hands-dirty-with-linux-on.html internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)

http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2009_slides/nehalem_pps_comparison.pdf test results for linux routing performance on recent intel “nehalem” CPUs and 10G ethernet

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/16802 email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )