[H-GEN] Improving UDP performance on firewall?

[David Jericho]

Willie Yeo wrote:

>Thanks, those NICs are great for taking some load of the CPU. I guess it depends on how you look at it.
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Well, when it's my employers/personal money, and the list price of the 
cards is equal to what the machine itself cost, yes, it very much 
depends on how you look at it.

TOEs are only of benefit when you are loading all your CPUs at maximum, 
_and_ managing many gigabit or 10Ge interfaces that are running near 
capacity. I would definitely not advocate placing one in a firewall 
running exposed to the net.

Suggesting a TOE for a common use would be like suggesting that you move 
the kernel VFS layer to the hard drive controller itself.

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Tucana Technologies