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Quoth Joe Greco on Fri, 15 November:
: I was reliably routing 5000pps the other day on a Pentium 100...
: and it did not seem particularly stressed out.

Has anyone constructed a performance model for routing on x86
hardware?  You only need to improve this performance by a factor
of 3.4 in order to attain Dennis' magic 17 kpps.  That does not
seem very far out.