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2007 Apr 18
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[Bridge] Measuring Bridge Performance (+ebtables/iptables)
...ed test setup with 4 servers (gbit nics) and a linux bridge
(2 x 100 mbit nic), all on 2.6.19. Two servers are in the MZ and two in the DMZ, the bridge is (of
course) in the middle. There are two gbit switches (MZ and DMZ). iptables has ~400 rules loaded.
For actually testing the performance I ran packetgenerator as well as netperf on the servers.
Starting with one server and ending up with all machines sending and receiving. On the bridge I used
vnstat and iptraf to measure the throughput. I also wrote a perl script which is reading the device
counters from /proc to calculate an average.
On my search I fo...