On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:49:04 -0400 Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> wrote: > Quite simply a general purpose CPU system isn't normally built to > handle network traffic at gigabit rates, especially not from multiple > ports at once. If you really want a line rate gigabit router, you need > custom ASIC to do hardware offload of that work. Several networking > companies make just such hardware (of course most only sell the chips, > not full pci cards with integrated NICS). Check out broadcom, AMCC or > Intel, they all have hardware like what you're looking for. Gigabit routing is possible with commodity hardware. It's a software problem for the cases that go fast enough currently. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
