From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NzZbo-0002A0-UH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:04:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 880A6E0BD7 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.hosting.lv (mail.hosting.lv [213.21.217.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FC2E0B54 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.246.143.141] by mail.hosting.lv with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1NzZFS-000GdV-57; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:41:06 +0300 Message-ID: <4BBCC3A9.6030206@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:40:57 +0300 From: Arkadi Shishlov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm router with 3 ports References: <4BB4984E.5060806@tampabay.rr.com> <201004012220.59460.jsyrytczyk@uni.opole.pl> <4BB51867.6060809@wildgooses.com> <201004022314.16455.jsyrytczyk@uni.opole.pl> <4BBA4A53.3030309@tampabay.rr.com> <4BBA5893.4000904@gmail.com> <4BBA6808.1020302@tampabay.rr.com> <4BBB316C.10404@wildgooses.com> <4BBC97DB.2070700@wildgooses.com> In-Reply-To: <4BBC97DB.2070700@wildgooses.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 69e5f5b4-022a-4be2-821c-dda62b0f038c X-Archives-Hash: b99fd87465c1537fa4f5d1b710605a8b On 04/07/10 17:34, Ed W wrote: > Obviously these are quite a lot more power hungry than some ARM device, > but if you want to filter 8x gig E ports then I wonder if you need > something a bit more beefy anyway? If you want to do that, then you need a specialized hardware (for relatively low power consumption) or Core2/Phenom class CPU, right? These recent incarnations of small routers with GigE interfaces is of limited use. Most even have no memory bandwidth to do the routing on full speed of one 1Gbps stream. I agree, it is better to have GigE, because (1) 100Mbps+ speeds are attainable, or (2) if there is an ethernet switch chip built-in and actual processing only happens on WAN port. Sure, 1GHz PPC RouterBoard or Lanner system has the value, but is it better or cheaper than a generic Atom/Nano board + multiport ethernet card?