On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Alex Thurlow wrote: > >How much traffic can a modern intel board with a core 2 duo handle > >with $EL_GENERIC_UNIX_OS ?
> The PCI-Express bus tops out at 2.5 Gbps I believe, and they (Vyatta > router salespeople to be specific) say you should be able to reach > that. At 850 Mbps, my Intel Core 2 Duo running Quagga/IPtables (with a > decent number of firewall rules) on Gentoo only hits about 30% CPU > usage. With that, it sound like you could hit the 2.5Gbps if you had > the connection. What pps are you seeing on that? Adrian
