Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:07:27 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Bromirski?= <lukasz@bromirski.net> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>, Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 1GBit router? Message-ID: <47CC304F.6040006@bromirski.net> In-Reply-To: <47CAADB8.9000202@digiware.nl> References: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803012014350.20402@filebunker.xip.at> <497111.42659.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20080301225727.GA85851@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <47CAADB8.9000202@digiware.nl>
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Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I'm looking for a stream exploder.:) > 1 2Mbit stream in, and as many as possible out. > And 7*1Gb = 14Gbit, so I'd like to be pushing 7000 streams. > (One advantage is that they will be UDP streams, so there is > a little less bookkeeping in the protocol stack ) Wouldn't it be a case for use of multicast vs unicast? Hardware is always better anyway, so why not invest in some switch that can do unicast/multicast in hardware? -- "Don't expect me to cry for all the | Łukasz Bromirski reasons you had to die" -- Kurt Cobain | http://lukasz.bromirski.net
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