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Re: image stream routers


From: tony sarendal <dualcyclone () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:38:06 +0100


On 17/09/05, sthaug () nethelp no <sthaug () nethelp no> wrote:
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?


I didn't say that a 250kpps box was a high-end box.
One reliable Mpps is not high-end either, but it can carry quite a lot
of Mbps. What is C or M price for a reliable full feed Mpps ?

"My" high-end boxes never manage to impress me with their pps
capability before I'm disapointed in their reliability.

/Tony

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Tony Sarendal - dualcyclone () gmail com
IP/Unix
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