[Click] [OT] - Any suggestions on what hardware to buy?

[Alastair McKinley]

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the slightly off topic question.

I want to run Click on a powerful machine with lots of interfaces
(10-50, the more the better), and I was hoping that someone here might
have an idea what to look for.

I guess I want e1000 NICS to support polling.  Can I buy such a beast
off the shelf or should I build my own?  If I were to build it, what
would I get to support enough e1000 NICS? 

Should I be looking to run multi-threaded Click on SMP?

Again, apologies for the off-topic question.  

Best regards,

Alastair