On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:34:43AM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> Christos... I'm also wondering about Thor's comment about packet
> fowarding.  I'm assuming Thor's comment is independent of any of my
> ad-hoc measurements.  My, er, nasty suspicious mind is wondering if
> Thor's results are from a low-end or embedded machine with a small
> I-cache (say, 16k or less).

That's right -- I saw approximately a 20% drop in throughput with 1K
datagrams flowing across a Soekris net4501.

I dug into it a little bit, but I'm actually having trouble remembering
what I found.  I think, among other things, at the time when I looked
(well over a year ago) options IPSEC may have disabled the fast-path
forwarding code entirely.

Thor