On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:16, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 02:41 pm, Burner wrote: > > load average is about 5Mbyte/s spikes at 10MByte/s, all traffic is > > webcontent. > > That seems to be large volume -- three to seven T1s unless my math is > off (my coffee hasn't kicked in yet). > > I'd almost expect a firewall per T1, or what kind of performance can you > get out of a Linux box serving as a router?? (Well, it is just within > the capability of a single 100 mbps Ethernet card, but it's a lot of > traffic.)
To give some indication: we run a complete ISP backbone based on Debian boxes running Zebra for routing. This is all done on fairly standard hardware (usually Pentium III, 256Mb RAM), which can easily handle the load. Actually, the greater part of the load is caused by SNMP calls and user interaction. You can see some public statistics of our network on http://noc.luna.nl. We also have a router connecting 5 T1 lines. It has been up for over 600 days now, with a load average of about 0.05, also on very standard hardware. So I'd say a fairly recent box should be able to handle this amount of traffic without any problems... Regards, Teun Vink Luna.nl NOC -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna.nl B.V. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Puntegaalstraat 109 Postbus 63000 Tel : (010) 750 2000 3024 EB ROTTERDAM 3002 JA ROTTERDAM Fax : (010) 750 2002 www.luna.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helpdesk: (010) 750 2020
