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Fabrice wrote:
> But I tought, after having read the 5.2 paragraph of LVS-HOWTO,
> that the packet rate was limited to max. 8000 packets/s (for any
> packet size). This paragraph is a bit unclear, especially the
> sentence "Thinking of a network as 100Mbps rather than ca. 8000
> packets/s is a triumph of marketing." It made me think that Fast
> Ethernet was limited to 8000 packets/s. But know I reread it, it
> doesn't say that it is limited to 8000 :)
under the test conditions I used, ie standard tcp packets, 100Mbps
ethernet is limited to 8000 packets/sec, for any sized payload
(1byte to whatever I used for the mtu).
I do get higher packet rates when using testlvs (about 2x I believe).
I don't know what the difference is.
Joe
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