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Re: image stream routers

  • From: sthaug
  • Date: Sat Sep 17 13:12:18 2005 
> A collegue smartbits tested a 1GHz pc, with a full feed and 250k
> simoultaneons flows it managed around 250kpps. This also with freebsd
> and device polling. It sounds to me like a software based machine can
> be plenty fast with good code under the hood.

Sorry, in today's world of high-end routers 250kpps doesn't qualify as
"plenty fast". Can your box do linerate Gigabit Ethernet with minimum
size packets, on several ports simultaneously?

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected]