OT: ISPs: Linux's role nowadays

[Marcel Rieux]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:

> So long as the firewall doesn't have to handle too many rules and the
> routing decisions are minimal.  At those traffic levels, the system
> would be swamped with interrupts anyway.

Err... I believe we're though with this discussion :) Firewalling,
routing, all except web servers, you need hardware implemented code.

Regards!