On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 17:20, Bill Owens <ow...@nysernet.org> wrote: > I'm curious - and this is a question for the list as well - is there some > advantage to building a > router out of a PC, rather than using an OpenWRT box using the Pantou > firmware? > <http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/Pantou_:_OpenFlow_1.0_for_OpenWRT> I > have only > just begun to work with it, but with the TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND, which costs > around $55, I can > get four GigE 'user' ports and one more for the controller, with 43.5 Mbps > between ports. There's > the potential to use the WiFi side as well, though I haven't tested it yet.
This is the main difference right here - on the PC using a PCI-e dual/quad-port ethernet card, you can easily get full line rate, while you will crush the CPU on the TP-Link with as little as 10-20Mbps (depending on your packet size). -- Nick _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
