OS choice for an edge router

[Gary Palmer]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:32:25AM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andre Oppermann wrote:
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> >There are no NICs known that can do packet forwarding offload.
> >And neither is there support in FreeBSD for that.  You're probably
> >confusing this with checksum offloading or TSO (TCP segmentation
> >offloading) which isn't an issue with packet forwarding at all.
> >
> This was my understanding to until the original poster inspired be to 
> google yet another time for a card supporting packet forwarding offload.
> 
> To my suprise i found one!
> 
> http://netfpga.org/

This might also prove a good routing platform:

http://www.tilera.com/products/boards.php