5) You're dying to see a PC that handles 5Gb/s ... We had 6 Dell 6950s handling that amount (in-line) for Cisco's SCE ...
6) How outdated are you in Linux libraries?
7) Having my workstation on the core router doesn't mean i'm going to use the entire 5Gb/s ... how silly are you to take it literally. (doesn't mean i can't .. .thanks to "axel")
Even there is 10G cards on market, they are not supposed to route this 10G.
Dell 6950 is AMD, and AMD sucks on routing, because of NUMA.
I will quote phrase "5) You're dying to see a PC that handles 5Gb/s "
There is NO PC which can handle 5 Gb/s properly. Maximum plain forwarding, with 3 entries, and without firewall. And yes, Teodor right, libraries have nothing to do at all to routing. Thats shows that you know nothing about linux internals.
Well, when you write 5 Gb/s connection, for IT professional it means you tried it and using it.
Or maybe you mean 5 1000Base-T cables to your computers? :D
I have a friend who's connected to KSA's IGW, he's connected to a 10Gbps switch, fiber all the way...imagine the speed he's getting
Fiber all the way? Never. Noone in world have fiber all the way :-)
Just by simple reason - all connections inside switch still done by copper.
Speed... yep... physically he have 10Gbps. Practically his international connectivity limited to available bandwidth. As far as i know, most of KSA links overloaded at peak time.
I'm sorry to say, but on Middle East it is usual to exaggerate things. Like someone drove 200km/h, to first friend he say 230km/h, to second 240 km/h, and 10th will hear 300km/h.
At some point, it is easy to step line, when exaggerating becomes lie.
