[adam_walker]

Yes. My comment above glosses over some details.

The SRAM clock and the Ethernet clock can be independent. The SRAM clock rate is what determines the rate of lookups for a single cuckoo hashtable.

On a modern FPGA, the SRAM clock can run up to about 500MHz. So, if you pipeline things, you can get 500 million lookups per second in the FPGA fabric. The maximum packet rate in 10G Ethernet is around 15 million/sec. So, no matter how you design the protocol you use to communicate with the FPGA, if you only request a single lookup per packet, you will be well below the maximum rate the RAMs can support.

Of course, I haven't actually built any of this. The clock rates in the blog post are much lower, and the chip is much smaller. So, this is all an educated guess.