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A lot of home gateways have really feeble cpus and rely on HW acceleration to process packets.
by ajb 13y ago
A lot of home gateways have really feeble cpus and rely on HW acceleration to process packets.
- jrockway 13y agoSoftware on feeble CPUs does OK up to 100Mbps or so, and I doubt he's complaining about problems at that speed. (I have a 5+-year-old Geode-based router at home, and it can do full pf rule evaluation and forwarding at about 300Mbps.)