On Sat, Jul 26, 2008, Colin Alston wrote: > >And I always ask that question when people claim really high(!) throughput > >on > >software forwarding. It turns out their throughput was single source/single > >dest, and/or large packets (so high throughput, but low pps.) > > I assume though that all of this is on x86 platform hardware. How does > this compare to Linux or FreeBSD running on something else like the > Cavium Octeon and other 64bit MIPS based processors?
You'll have to ask the people playing with it on that. Me, I've been looking for some multicore MIPS + fruit for some Squid related hackery but I've been busy with other things (like, you know, making Squid-2 be able to be run on multi-core hardware in the first place..) so it'll have to wait.. :) Adrian
