Routing

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://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Notes on how to get sane traffic flows for a linux box that has 2 network cards connected to the same network. NOTE: this is a required setup if you are using multiple network cards feature on AWS VPC

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://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.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomhec.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Flinux_ip_routers.pdf&ei=yXDzSdjSD4yYtAPG_cXPCg&rct=j&q=linux+routing+performance&usg=AFQjCNGNHX6jWJ7Ybrg8Jod24MMenJYt0g Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU

http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf paper describing linux 10G ethernet performance as per RFC2544