Re: Core router bakeoff?

[Robert Sanders <rsanders () mindspring net>]

> BTW, we are managing to get NetBSD to handle multiple ethernets at
> wire speed now that NetBSD-current has (still experimental) flow cache 
> code in it.

[perhaps erroneously supposing that the promise of new longevity for Unix
on commodity hardware as an edge packet forwarding engine is relevant to
NANOG...]

I heard on the FreeBSD lists that NASA is sponsoring this work.  Does
anybody know the desired end product?  The release notes I saw seemed
biased towards host stack improvements, with the flow cache a notable
exception.  I'd kill for a decent low-cost , high-density 10/100 ethernet
traffic shaping device with functionality similar to Cisco's CAR or, dare
to dream, a Packeteer.

regards,
  -- Robert