Residential CPE suggestions

[jgreco at ns.sol.net (Joe Greco)]

> It uses a Cavium Octeon processor which does have dedicated HW packet proce=
> ssing.  A moderate number of  prefixes won't slow it down doing vanilla for=
> warding, not sure about 2 million though...  I believe they have recently o=
> ptimized some of the FW stuff to take advantage of the HW as well. =20
> 
> Layering services like FW, NAT, and tunneling definitely drops the packet r=
> ate significantly, but it is still capable of 100+Mbps at IMIX packet sizes=
> .=20
> 
> I think there are a couple of in depth tests out there.
> 
> In my experience the ERL works really well for a $99 device.=20

I sent them an inquiry and they sent a friendly but fact-free response
so it is probably safe to assume that it is relatively good at basic
packet forwarding but the services will kill it.

... JG
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