Re: 10GE router resource

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Aaron Glenn wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy <patrick () chegg com> 
> > wrote:
> > > Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a
> > > cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways.
> > > Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
> >
> > I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose for a PIX.
> Curious if you or others have tried Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, they 
> claim that they are approaching wire speed 10G with the right card 
> (possibly their own, which is about $995 list).

FreeBSD is doing wirespeed 10GE.

Oh wait, do you mean forwarding, or just TCP? :)



Adrian