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		londons_explore 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink User Terminal Teardown Most hardware >100Mbps has hardware offload - ie. the hardware is told which packets to send where, and software doesn't touch individual packets (except rare packets like ping).

riehwvfbk 3 months ago | [–]

Yes, but you can have GSO and GRO in combination with userspace protocol processing.

Hikikomori 3 months ago | [–]

Not really, you can easily find CPU only routers in every product segment from home routers to enterprise for that speed, even many years ago.

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