Re: 2.4 kernel networking and SMP

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Hello!

> Two interfaces or physical devices? If I have many network interfaces
> that use the same physical device 

What is "physical device"? 8)


Assuming, you talk about tunnels:

> to send packets do additional cpu will make sense?

If encapsulation is expensive, sort of IPsec transform,
smp will help a lot certainly.

If it is not and you have thousand of tunnels, all of them
will have single contention point at underlying interface certainly.

Alexey