26 Mar
2008
26 Mar
'08
9:59 a.m.
Is there a multiport card out there on to which some of the forwarding responsibilities can be offloaded? Perhaps the CPU doesn't need to see every packet that arrives on the machine.
Am I the only person who has heard of Google? It didn't take me long to find this wiki page http://www.bro-ids.org/wiki/index.php/ClusterFrontends for an Opensource Intrusion Detection System that lists various 10G cards for Linux and a couple of FPGA cards so that you can roll your own ASICs. Anyway, this one http://www.lewiz.com/talon3220.html has two ports and claims to reach 8.8 Gbps with 1500 byte packets. People rolling their own router are not the only ones who want to do 10G on Linux. --Michael Dillon