yep, but you are never going to get a generic processor architecture to have anywhere near the performance of custom silicon ASICs designed for specifically for

yep, but you are never going to get a generic processor architecture to have anywhere near the performance of custom silicon ASICs designed for specifically for routing packets. No matter what software you put on top of it. Its never going to work in a core network routing 100s of gigs of traffic. So it's not going to work for ISPs