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Does anyone have an idea about how this fits in with Cloudflare's new fourth generation servers[0] which up the network card buffers to 16MB from 512KB?

[0]:http://blog.cloudflare.com/a-tour-inside-cloudflares-latest-...

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The cards have two links that do 10Gbps in each direction. The 16MB buffer will hold 7ms at worst (double if the links are unbalanced and the buffers shared), which might be okay for web content. Frankly CloudFlare should focus on making their ddos filter more realtime and get over their fear of dropped packets.

Other than the 95% chance this article was posted in response to that one?

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