[Gllug] Content switches using Linux

[John Hearns]

> - Will the Linux kernel use multiple processors for this sort of work
> (many, very big routing tables)?
>
> - Will a PCI bus come close to holding this sort of throughput?
>
A good survey of performance of Gig-E cards:
http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/papers/pfldnet2003-rhj.doc

I

Also think Infiniband
http://www.mellanox.com/products/hca.html
But that's not for routing applications - for server room and host/storage
networking.


For fastest single stream of data, 2.38Gbps, have a look at:
http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/speed_record.html

I've no idea about using Zebra on SMP systems.


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