Archive for the 'router' Category

Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance …

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc

Linux as IP Router [vaytta marketing paper, benchmarks are at the end]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

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

Understanding QoS on the Internet [slashdot comment on Bittorrent and VoIP in SOHO routers]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

? “Why VoIP is usless when I download something on bittorent; can I twik my router to fix it” ?

CARP – [kernel-mode] OpenBSD CARP realization for Linux kernel 2.6.

Monday, June 16th, 2008

CARP is an improved version of the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) standard. It has more features than Cisco’s HSRP. There is another[user-space] implementation called ucarp. This version does not compartable with OpenBSD CARP.

BSD [and linux] Router / Firewall Testing

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance

TransNexus White Papers — astersik / SeR performance benchmarks

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Transnexus sell some commercial product (something like session authorization / CDR device for asterisk) , but they did performance testing for asterisk (back 2 back sip) and SIP switching for Ser

Dynamips / Dynagen Tutorial

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Dynamips is a Cisco router emulator written by Christophe Fillot. It emulates 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700, and 7200 hardware platforms, and runs standard IOS images. In Chris’ own words: