This isn't true, the reason you buy specialized hardware are for the supportable 'sessions'. Normal NICs don't support a lot of sessions, but specialized hardware can support 25,000 on up to a million sessions (hypothetically speaking of course, I don't know exact numbers but I know its A LOT). Not to mention that you get alot more overhead on a basic NIC using a CISC platform.
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This isn't true, the reason you buy specialized hardware are for the supportable 'sessions'. Normal NICs don't support a lot of sessions, but specialized hardware can support 25,000 on up to a million sessions (hypothetically speaking of course, I don't know exact numbers but I know its A LOT). Not to mention that you get alot more overhead on a basic NIC using a CISC platform.
Actually, this story was on Digg yesterday, several people were able to reproduce it until a few hours passed and google apparently fixed it.
You can't do it from gmail to gmail, it has to be an outside source.