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From: Andres Herrera (aherrer@clientes.unicaja.es)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 07:24:47 EST

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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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