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please define routing? actual packet forwarding should be done in hardware, because software forwarding has atrocious performance in comparison.
by kazen44 5y ago
please 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...