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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:14:41 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        "IBS / Andre Oppermann" <andre@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Routing thru a FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19971023201441.00ade850@etinc.com>

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At 12:41 AM 10/24/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Tony Li wrote:
>-snip-
>> Ob FreeBSD: The point here is that at some point, when you need many
>> hundreds of thousands of PPS of forwarding, normal processors just
>> fail to
>> provide the necessary speed.  Note that for most situations, this is
>> not
>> necessary.  A heavily hacked FreeBSD system can get around 100Kpps.
>> Of
>> course at this point, you also run out of PCI bandwidth, so you've
>> maxed
>> out the rest of the hardware too.

Of course these numbers change linearly as Intel cranks out faster processors.

Dennis



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