Hi!!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:45:52PM +0800, liuxg wrote:
> I have a idea , like software router realized in linux kernel ,
>whether can I realize a software switch with Linux.For examples, use a
>PC with multi-netcards as ports of the "switch".
> Anybody can tell me the difficult of my idea.
There's two problems with that:
1. Hoy many cards can you attach to a single PC and what would be the total
cost?
2. Algorithms in linux kernel area efficient enough to make this a good
alternative??? Switches have very good algorithms por routing.
Bye (and sorry for my english) :-)
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