[84608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: image stream routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sat Sep 17 13:11:42 2005
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:11:14 +0200 (CEST)
To: dualcyclone@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <ad7542dc05091709344bb9960f@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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
