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On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:38:49 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Frankly what percentage of linux powered machines act as high perf
> routers ?

More than you think, every Linux machine acting as hypervisor (Xen and KVM)
is also doing this.