Oops, forgot that part.  At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that puts

us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps.
Daniel Ouellet wrote:

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> Alex Thurlow wrote:

>> We're pushing streaming video, so it's almost all outbound traffic by

>> about a 30:1 factor, and our average packet size is quite large -

>> around 1200 bytes.  At the moment, when we hit about 350Mbps, the

>> router gets to ~30% CPU usage, and it appears that we stop being able

>> to pass all the traffic at full speed.  I don't see packet loss, but

>> our traffic graph flattens a good bit.  At those rates, we also start

>> to see crashing, but we haven't been able to figure out the exact

>> cause of those either.

>

> The issue as explain in the archive many times is not the level of

> traffic, but the number of packets per seconds you pass and it's based

> also on good network cards. Many can do in the 500mbps with their

> OpenBSD router and more without to much issues. But again, what is the

> limit is the pps, not the bps. S, if all your packets are in the 1200

> bytes as you put here, you sure can test it with one OpenBSD and you

> sure should have no issue with good decent hardware, but more

> importantly, good network cards. That's really the key here.

>

> I use it in public peering places no issues and I keep rolling out

> more and more and my next one, as I go slow to be safe will be in

> Equinix where I have close to 100 sessions and many full bgp feeds as

> well.

>

> Test and adjust for your own needs, but you sure should be able to do

> that better then your current setup. Funny that some replace their

> setup with Cisco and I replace Cisco with OpenBSD as much as I can! My

> only problem is really I can't replace Cisco DS3 and multi channel DS3

> with OpenBSD yet for the lack of decent hardware for that! (;<

>

> But every Ethernet type are going away from Cisco one after the others

> and hopefully before the end of the year, all will be gone!

>

> Best,

>

> Daniel