Re: [High Speed Firewalls]

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Paul Boyer, sie wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> I understand 1000Mb/s is HIGH traffic compared to what can be done
> right now.
> No general purpose computer can today cope with such a big load.
>
> Nevertheless, Linux as a simple router is doing pretty well between 2
> 1000 base T cards in "lab" tests. 

Depends on how you define "well"...

> I know this relies heavily on the NIC doing part of the job, and other
> specific optimization.

Including hardware design.

> But with the speed fight underway, stated that we can already do
> better than 100 with regular hardware, and we can already support
> 1000-enabled cards, it would surprise me a lot that going to 1000
> could take more than a few months.
[...]

So how fast can you go with 1000BaseT cards at present ?

Darren