Re: recommendations for NIC HW(/SW) design?

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:

> > (Since the Intel IXP processor is just an ARM processor with a network
> > interface grafted onto the chip, a bunch of things that apply to PCI
> > NIC design might not apply here.)
> 
> I think this IXP is only a UP architecture, is it?

Yeah, it's a single-core ARM with a big fat pipe (either 4 or 10 Gb/s
depending on model) grafted onto the CPU.


--L