On 2015-02-19 06:26 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
Modern Atoms (avoton, rangeley) will do just fine for this amount of "normal" traffic. If the ruleset is super-complicated or if there are very high PPS counts (which is by *far* more important than absolute bandwidth) _or_ if there is a reasonable chance of that happening during the expected life of the machine, then you might need faster.
Somewhat OT, but I've heard the pfSense developers over at Netgate have done amazing things with Rangeley CPUs (i.e. actually useful w/10Gbps NICs). In general, what I'm hearing in the embedded world is that QuickAssist is a really, really nice feature *if* you can figure out how to use it properly. Reminds me of the buzz surrounding the Cell processor when it came out.
-- -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net
