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Re: image stream routers


From: sthaug () nethelp no
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:11:14 +0200 (CEST)


A collegue smartbits tested a 1GHz pc, with a full feed and 250k
simoultaneons flows it managed around 250kpps. This also with freebsd
and device polling. It sounds to me like a software based machine can
be plenty fast with good code under the hood.

Sorry, in today's world of high-end routers 250kpps doesn't qualify as
"plenty fast". Can your box do linerate Gigabit Ethernet with minimum
size packets, on several ports simultaneously?

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no


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