Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

Guy Boisvert wrote:

On top of that, i'd say that a PC, with whatever processor you could put, is able to service a certain amount of interrupts / second.

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Somebody mentioned pfSense. I use it and there is an option that can boost the performance: Using device polling instead of relying on interrupts generated by cards. I dunno if CentOS has this kind of option, the ethernet gurus of this list could provide important information on that.

Hope this helped.

Guy Boisvert, ing.

I don't like replying to myself, but this paper could give you an idea of what's going on inside Linux:

http://www.ist-scampi.org/events/workshop-2004/deri.pdf

Regards,

Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.