From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: ananth.kandukuri@gmail.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org,
linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux based router for Gigabit traffic
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:56:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040822225607.401e9d5d.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41289640.4060902@redhat.com>
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:49:04 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> wrote:
> Quite simply a general purpose CPU system isn't normally built to
> handle network traffic at gigabit rates, especially not from multiple
> ports at once. If you really want a line rate gigabit router, you need
> custom ASIC to do hardware offload of that work. Several networking
> companies make just such hardware (of course most only sell the chips,
> not full pci cards with integrated NICS). Check out broadcom, AMCC or
> Intel, they all have hardware like what you're looking for.
Gigabit routing is possible with commodity hardware. It's a software
problem for the cases that go fast enough currently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-22 12:32 Linux based router for Gigabit traffic Anantha Kiran
2004-08-22 12:49 ` Neil Horman
2004-08-23 5:56 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-23 7:11 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2004-08-23 13:10 ` Adam Lang
2004-08-23 7:58 ` urgrue
2004-08-23 11:17 ` Neil Horman
2004-08-23 11:36 ` urgrue
2004-08-25 7:48 ` Stephen Samuel
2004-08-23 15:31 ` Stephen J. Smoogen
2004-08-24 17:08 ` DNS "named" question Tony Gogoi
2004-08-24 17:21 ` DNS 'named' question Scott Taylor
2004-08-24 17:33 ` DNS "named" question Bradley Hook
2004-08-22 15:07 ` Linux based router for Gigabit traffic Matti Aarnio
2004-08-27 18:01 ` neolozer
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408220858160.1897-100000@bawx.pilosoft.com>
[not found] ` <4128CA84.7000304@redhat.com>
2004-08-22 18:14 ` Anantha Kiran
2004-08-22 18:25 ` Anantha Kiran
2004-08-23 15:39 ` Stephen J. Smoogen
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