* Marco Fretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-11 13:19]: > Forget this. Cisco does CEF (cisco express forwarding) that's stream > forwarding in hardware.
1) that is best case. some traffic has to go to the main cpu. attackers can provole that and easily overload their tiny host cpus. 2) only the big models actually work that way. on everything 7200ish or smaller you have a classic central CPU design where almost all traffic has to be handled. > You don't have a chance to reach this PPS with a pc > / server based router (any os). And I don't think there is any equivalent > hardware for Cisco and other router vendors. Because only routing decision > is done in CPU / memory, packet forwarding is done on the "hardware > layer"... so you can't compare Cisco CPU / memory against PC cpu / memory > that's not fair :-) sure, it is fair. as long as an OpenBSD router is capable of handling your traffic (and I'd put the limit for real world traffic way above 800 MBit/s) it is, compared to cisco: -easier -way more secure -probably less troublesome and more reliable -way more flexible -cheaper. gives you money to donate. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
