Re: Software router state of the art

• From: Charles Wyble
• Date: Wed Jul 23 11:36:42 2008

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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:52:56 PDT, Zed Usser said:

There's been some discussion on the list regarding software routers

The performance of "software routers" has always had a hardware component.

Basically, for the vast majority of them, take your PCI bus bandwidth,
count how many times a packet has to cross it, and do the math. You can't
forward more than that much traffic no matter *what* software you run on
that box. If that number falls short, stop right there and look for
some box of different design that has the required backplane bandwidth.

Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059
http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO Known Element Enterprises / SoCal WiFI project

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