[Gllug] Content switches using Linux

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 25 Jul, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm not a routing guru by any stretch, but when I found out what a Nokia 
> CSS (Content Switching System) is, I thought "that sounds like an IP 
> router with scripts for dynamic configuration...". The allegory is "Why 
> pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for something that can be done with 
> commodity hardware and free software? I might have a go at hacking one 
> together myself". (at least I think it's an allegory, but let's not get 
> into a long discussion about it please).
> 
> I found one of the Nokia guys and he came back with "6GB throughput; can 
>   Linux do that?". I figured that to do inspection of packets to fill 6 
> x 1GB ethernet cards; and run remote interrogation of servers and 
> process the results, may be a bit taxing for a single processor and 
> commodity hardware...
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 
> - Will the Linux kernel use multiple processors for this sort of work 
> (many, very big routing tables)?
> 
   Would something like a Transmeta chip help with its embedded OS?


-- 
Chris Bell


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