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Re:Bird – Internet Routing Daemon by d2mw on Saturday July 27, 2019 @07:41AM (#20541540)
You can find much slower machines able to route gigabit, the limitations are mostly on the bus and ability for the driver/chip to efficiently process notifications. We're only talking about 125MB/sec, and if any of that is bulk data utilizing the full MTU, as few as 81k packets/sec, represented in (modulo driver/chip/config) far fewer than 81k interrupts/sec
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Re:Bird – Internet Routing Daemon by piotrkubisa on Saturday July 27, 2019 @07:58AM (#20541604)
Yup. Please note the Ubiquity's edgerouters have similar pps rate in certain packet sizes [0], I guess it's because of slow Mediatek CPU. ER-X-family also is a bit crippled in terms of hardware offloading [1].

[0]: https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/

[1]: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006567467-EdgeRou...

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