In article <17e62da8.0401300929.6013c53d@posting.google.com >,
gk@gcol.com (Gurvinder) wrote:

> My question is if I am downloading a lot of data (i.e. a few
> gigabytes) via
> the workstation, what load does this have on the cpu? Can the routed
> daemon be assigned a low priority.

The routed daemon is not involved in packet forwarding; the only thing
it does is send and receive RIP packets. This is a protocol that
routers use to announce routes to each other. Unless you have other
routers on the network, you don't even need to run routed.

Packet forwarding is done at a very low level by the kernel. It doesn't
involve much computation, so the overhead is pretty low.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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