On Sat, February 23, 2008 1:31 am, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Thing is, there are people who report doing 10ge (almost) line rate 64 > byte pps on current PC hardware, with the "right" combination of PCIe, > decent chipsets and crazy tuned forwarding code complete with > prefetching. > > Its just not being done in open source. > > I've seen a few 10ge PC routers recently, which can do 10ge at 1500 > byte frames with out of the box Linux/FreeBSD. Its not that hard.
What was the hardware? I'm actually looking at this at my workplace; a Soekris-based firewall installed by a previous employee is becoming severely overtaxed as we've added traffic. I realize hardware-specific firewalls, routers, and switches can offer better performance for comparable money... but it's not as _fun_.
