[171611] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Residential CPE suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed May 7 17:54:58 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: bedard.phil@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 12:18:09 -0500 (CDT)
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> It uses a Cavium Octeon processor which does have dedicated HW packet proce=
> ssing. A moderate number of prefixes won't slow it down doing vanilla for=
> warding, not sure about 2 million though... I believe they have recently o=
> ptimized some of the FW stuff to take advantage of the HW as well. =20
>
> Layering services like FW, NAT, and tunneling definitely drops the packet r=
> ate significantly, but it is still capable of 100+Mbps at IMIX packet sizes=
> .=20
>
> I think there are a couple of in depth tests out there.
>
> In my experience the ERL works really well for a $99 device.=20
I sent them an inquiry and they sent a friendly but fact-free response
so it is probably safe to assume that it is relatively good at basic
packet forwarding but the services will kill it.
... JG
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