On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:27, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: > Would that mean that a pair of machines transferring at full speed on > eth0 and eth1 would not reduce the available bandwidth for another pair > on eth2 and eth3? If not, then how can that be achieved.
As has been noted a couple of times before on this list (indeed, on threads you've started), software switching is slow and you're not going to get anywhere near the performance of a hardware switch, especially with embedded hardware. Your bandwidth is limited by your processor and memory, not your port speeds. That is: it doesn't matter if you have 4 GbE interfaces if your processor/memory/kernel can only achieve, say, 1Gb/s. If two ports start consuming 800-900Mb/s, there's only 1-200Mb/s left for other ports, and there's little you can do to prevent that without taking bandwidth away from the initial two. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
