Re: Routed optical networks

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 5/12/23 15:03, Dave Taht wrote:

> Libreqos is free software, working as a bridge, you can plug it in
> between any two points on your network, and on cheap (350 bucks off of
> ebay) xeon gold hardware easily cracks 25Gbits while shaping with a
> goal of cracking 100Gbits one day soon.

This is fantastic!

I also found your post about it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/11pmc9a/a_latency_on_the_internet_update_bufferbloat_sqm/

If you could throw more hardware at it, could it do several 100's of Gbps?

Also, when you say "bridge", if the server dies, does it become a wire, 
or would that require specialized hardware builds?

Mark.