Mulithoming..

Ralph Doncaster ralph-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 14 00:28:36 UTC 2003


On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:

> In reality you are lucky to get ~3/4 of the actual speed and then there
> is the rarity of actually fully saturating both incoming and outgoing
> ports.

I've seen stats from many GigE router ports running > 500mbps full-duplex.
You won't see it on a PC since there's no open-source, widely-used OS that
can route >1million packets/sec.  It can be done on a modest (1-2Ghz) CPU
if someone with clue takes the time to write the code...

-Ralph
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