Yeah that's what I was thinking... you not only eliminate a single point
of failure, but you also split your pps throughput requirements in half.

Danno
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Martin Toft
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:52 AM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Router performance on OpenBSD and OpenBGPD

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:03:30PM -0800, Karsten McMinn wrote:
quoted text
> On 2/21/07, Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com> wrote:
> > Oops, forgot that part.  At 325Mbps, we do about 60,000pps, so that
> > puts us at about 360,000pps needed for 2Gbps.
>
> You'll have a hard time finding benches for that. To date, the best
> reported is 150k pps which was on the intel E7520 chipset. That was
> using em drivers. You're safest best for the most performance possible
> would likely be using the intel 5000 chipset (i.e. SuperMicro X7DB*
> motherboards) coupled with SysKonnect SK-9S* line of network cards.
> Its probably a safe bet that you'll be capable of 200K pps, but beyond
> that is anyones guess.

Assuming correct choice of hardware can get you half way to the goal,
wouldn't it be an idea to buy two or more machines and use CARP
loadbalancing? Or isn't this possible when we are talking BGP?

Regards,
Martin