* Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-22 09:53]: > On 7/21/05, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:35:27 -0500 > > Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To be blunt, because when an enterprise just needs pure unfiltered > > > inter-VLAN routing, Cisco has CEF products which can route between > > > interfaces at bps and pps rates unapproachable using a general purpose > > > Unix OS and COTS hardware. > > You know that CEF is just a poor exscuse for the pathetic performance > > of the CPU's Cisco put in, right? > Fine, so you don't like Cisco.
most of us just don't lik their hogwash. they sell crap. > Substitute Raptor or Juniper or some other > product that can do basic Inter-VLAN routing at 100,000 packets/second > in even their low end products, That doesn't change the facts, just the > brand name, the hue of the case, and maybe the reseller's profit margin. opposed to cisco juniper ships software that at least got some kind of QA, and doesn't sell pathetically slow CPUs for 10s and 100s of K$, and doesn't impose arbitary memory limits to force you to buy new boxens after a way too short period of time, and and and and... so, yes, it changes the facts dramatically. > Regardless of whether you use the walks-on-water SysKonnect cards or > "crappy" $470 Intel quad-EM cards, OpenBSD on i386 barely approaches > half that rate, when doing nothing more than routing packets from one > interface to another (but I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this). 100Kpps should be reachable with the right hardware right now. there is room for optimization in OpenBSD to reach way higher forwarding rates. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
