image stream routers

Sat Sep 17 17:11:14 UTC 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, sthaug at nethelp.no