Subject: Re: routed eating all processor time
To: Hugo Burm <hugob@fullmoon.nl>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/09/2000 09:48:13
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 05:43:52PM +0200, Hugo Burm wrote:

 > I configured NetBSD 1.4Z as a firewall between a cable modem and our
 > internal network.
 > Although the system seems to work ok, the "routed" program eats 99% of all
 > processor time and the typical load of the system (a 300 MHz AMD) is about
 > 1.0. Is this normal behaviour for a system configured as a router? Or is
 > something wrong?

I'm using routed(8) quite extensively on a VPN, and am not seeing any
trouble like this.

What is your routed(8) configuration (the contents of /etc/gateways), and
if you turn on routed(8) tracing (-T flag), what does the trace file say?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>