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Because there's no point. A single server can push hundreds of Gbps of traffic already; using an ASIC would just make it less agile.
by cperciva 5y ago
Because there's no point. A single server can push hundreds of Gbps of traffic already; using an ASIC would just make it less agile.
- ip26 5y agoYou might be able to bake some preprocessing of e.g. HTTP into the NIC, doing incrementally more work using well defined standards before delivering packets to the host. Especially with an FPGA.