[Soekris] What you mean by hardware optimization?

[Bill Maas]

Hello Esteban:

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 +0100, Esteban Ribičić wrote:

> What does that mean technically? Is there any short answer? any url to
> point me at? What makes this hardware "optimized" for frames
> switching?

A guess: if "frames switching" means "moving bytes from one interface to
another", then a possible form of optimization would be to keep the data
paths short with as little processing as possible in between. And to
avoid bottlenecks by using fast hardware where processing is needed.
Probably applies to a Soekris box. I guess..

Bill

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