MT what is the corresponding pps value vs. other routers?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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I’m trying to determine a comparable rating system for my Mikrotik (or really any MT that I build).

We have a MT on a Celeron 600MHz that has 4 ethernet ports and 2 cyclades t1 ports. It works great.

We are starting to pass LOTS of VOIP through the network (from Cisco 5300’s located behind the MT). The Ciscos handle all the g729 conversion and simply pass the traffic as IP through the MT.

With other routers, I found that at a certain level of traffic, the router would max the CPU because of the high number of IP packets per second (the VOIP traffic passes lots of packets per second, ~ 8K for each conversation)

So my single deciding factor in future deployments is how robust the router is with Packets Per Second handling.

The Cisco ones I’ve looked at handle 225k pps and a Lucent 1500 is handling 300k pps.

So, is there a benchmark for the MT? I mean, for example, on a P4 3.0GHz with 256MB of ram, will the MT handle 100k, 200k, 400k, 600k pps??

Does anyone know?

I know it can handle bunches of data throughput (5MB, 10MB+ etc) but that’s not the problem here, it’s the number of packets per second it can support…

Thanks in advance,
David

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sorry, one typo:
typical pps value for a conversation would be around 50pps…

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I dont have the data on a P4 3ghz, but i do know that 600kpps on a P3 600 mhz using FreeBSD v4.8, Intel PRO 100S adapters.
So alot more than 600kpps it most certainly is. RouterOS seems to be quite optimized when it comes to routing operations.

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I use AMD Althon 2500+, two 8139 NIC,run MT , it can 41Kpps. what problem? NIC?

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Almost without doubt, RealTek is the cheapest (read lowest performance) cards available.

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my test environment blow:


A router -------B router------C router

run bandwidth-test on A router , receive from C router.I want test B router (Kpps).
I monitor A router NIC, it’s received-packets-per-second 51543.
at this tim received-packets-per-second = max forward packet per second, is true?

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Unfortunately, our bandwidth generator need to be optimized for sending more than ~62kpps. We will add it to v2.9

John

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this hardware , P4 2.0 256M Intel gigabit NIC .
can how much kpps ?(about)

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Until we optimize our bandwidth generator, I can only say that it can handle more than 60kpps. Maybe we will have a new one by tomorrow.

John