RE: Zebra Router???

[Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>]

At 03:56 PM 21/04/2003 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:

> If you go higher than 100Mb/s speeds, look for zero-copy boards, especially
> on the Gigabit side that FreeBSD supports. You have drastically low
> interrupt overhead and your speeds to move packets around increase. In my
> experience, its not the CPU that gets bogged down (first) but the interrupt
> load on a properly configured (software) box.

... The em driver now supports polling.  The author of much of the polling 
code (luigi () iet unipi it) claimed to push 650Kpps on a 2.4Ghz PIV machine. 
YMMV based on the hardware you use, and the cards you combine.

        ---Mike