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Re: PacketShader


From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:30:06 +0930

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:59:43 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:23:19 -1000, Michael Painter said:
Researchers in South Korea have built a networking router that transmits data
at record speeds from components found in most high-end desktop computers
 http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26096/?nlid=3423

Two great quotes from the article:

"That isn't fast enough to take advantage of the full speed of a typical
network card, which operates at 10 gigabytes per second."

Anybody got a network of PCs that have cards that run at 10GBytes/sec? ;)


I missed that, and that answers the "was it a GigaBytes verses Gigabits
error" question. Nothing new here by the looks of it - people in this
thread were getting those sorts of speeds a year ago out of PC hardware
under Linux -

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/234

"I have achieved a collective throughput of 66.25 Gbit/s."

"We've achieved 70 Gbps aggregate unidirectional TCP performance from
one P6T6 based system to another."




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