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Routing should be done in software.
by nanochad 5y ago
Routing should be done in software.
- vetinari 5y agoIt is. Just the software doing the routing is not running on your main CPU, but on the CPU bundled on the board.
- kazen44 5y agoplease define routing? actual packet forwarding should be done in hardware, because software forwarding has atrocious performance in comparison.
- wolandpe 5y agoyeah, atrocious: I can reach roughly 20Gbps routed on my not too expensive home Opnsense box with firewalling and many other features (which is absolutley unnecessary for me). No routing by a CPU is not for routing between Comcast and Google, but it has it´s place and works so well, that a lot of opensource routing projects were supported by big vendors and telcos. Also networking for containers depends on this...