Re: IPS Issues document

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

This can be certainly done (and has to) but not because of the CPU load.
If it where only for CPU load reasons you would want to consider all other
engineering  elements (there is a thing out there called SMP or MP!).

Regards,
Julo

Russell Berkoff <russb@apple.com> on 14/03/2000 22:43:46

Please respond to Russell Berkoff <russb@apple.com>

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Subject:  Re: IPS Issues document




Hi,

Sorry, if I may have missed something here.

Are we saying that using the CPU 90% of available cpu cycles to manage a
communication device is OK, and that applying more CPU power is the
answer?

I really have to question the scalability of any protocol (network or
otherwise) that requires the CPU manage 40-80K packets/second.

Someone please show me a solution that offloads some of this stuff to
hardware!

Regards,
Russell Berkoff
Apple Computer
russb@apple.com