High Speed Firewalling in Linux
In this age of virtualization, cluster and grid applications, the load on the server network interface tends to increase. Multi-homed servers were rare not more than 5 years ago, nowadays servers come with 4 NICs pre-installed. This, of-course, increases complexity and network cost. Today I made a proposal for a couple of servers with more than 10 Gigabit interfaces. With the current state of technology, we are approaching the break even point for 10 Gigabit network interfaces. This year will see the breakthrough of 10Gigabit over copper in the datacentre.
