From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: neolozer Subject: Re: Linux based router for Gigabit traffic Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <7a436d9b040822053245a3304d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Anantha Kiran gmail.com> writes: > > Hi > I am doing a project, in which i have to redirect traffic coming from > one ethernet card of a machine, to one of three remaining three > ethernet cards of same machine based on the src,dest IP and Port > values of the pkt. I wrote a net_hook module to do this which i > working fine for lower speeds like < 400 Mbps traffic. But project > goal is to deal with gigabit traffic. > >... > > So, canbdoy please, suggest some opensource router for linux which > can deal with gigabit traffic. Or atleast some suggestions to solve > this problem. I have not used any gigabit hardware but I know on 100Mbps cards throughput at all speeds is noticely improved by enabling full duplex. And that is what I suggest to you. I believe you set it with ifconfig but I have not done so through ifconfig since 2.2.x.x. Now-a-days most distros allow those changes to be made when you're setting up your box during the installation. neolozer