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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:36:57 -0400
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se>
Cc:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Kirc Gover <kirc.gover@yahoo.com.au>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OS choice for an edge router
Message-ID:  <20070908193657.GC8194@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070908012111.C66700@chrishome.localnet>
References:  <20070907200809.CB6B05B58@mail.bitblocks.com> <46E1D74D.3070409@freebsd.org> <20070908012111.C66700@chrishome.localnet>

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On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:32:25AM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> 
> >There are no NICs known that can do packet forwarding offload.
> >And neither is there support in FreeBSD for that.  You're probably
> >confusing this with checksum offloading or TSO (TCP segmentation
> >offloading) which isn't an issue with packet forwarding at all.
> >
> This was my understanding to until the original poster inspired be to 
> google yet another time for a card supporting packet forwarding offload.
> 
> To my suprise i found one!
> 
> http://netfpga.org/

This might also prove a good routing platform:

http://www.tilera.com/products/boards.php





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