Choosing CPU for router

Andrew Snow als at octopus.com.au
Thu Mar 18 00:48:59 UTC 2010


Jon Otterholm wrote:
> This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 
> FTTH-customers.
> About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 
> pipes (2
> pipes/customer).

That doesn't sound right,  200kpps @ 500Mbps works out to an average 
packet size of 250 bytes?  Am I missing something


- Andrew


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