[106302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Jul 26 06:34:41 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:34:19 +0200
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0807230907h13bae9e1h55333c57bcdb1b09@mail.gmail.com>
(William Herrin's message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:23 -0400")
Cc: zzuser@yahoo.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* William Herrin:
> The Endace DAG cards claim they can move 7 gbps over a PCI-X bus from
> the NIC to main DRAM. They claim a full 10gbps on a PCIE bus.
But they are receive-only, right?
The main problem for "software routing" seems to be that it's basically
Ethernet-only because other interfaces are very difficult to find.
