On Saturday 26 August 2006 15:45, Erik Persson wrote: > Hello! > > I've asked the same question on debian-isp, but I ask here as well. > > Is there anyone who has any experience regarding running debian on an > Athlon 64 3200+, with dual 1gb/s lan, as a router and firewall? > > Or more generally, running debian as a gigabit router with dual 1gb/s nics? > > Any problems? > Anything special to think about? > What throughput is it possible to reach? > How have you solved any problems? > How is throughput affected by packet filtering? >
I can't answer your question directly, but I can give you a point in the ground. I run a debian (was sarge - just updated to etch) server with two 100Mb ethernet cards in to act as a router/firewall AND web server, tomcat applications server, mail server, fileserver, print server, name server, dhcp server etc etc. CPU load rarely gets above 3% except when people are accessing the web site (thats the java machines in topcat). That is with a 1.7Gh Celeron -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
