I have the need to put together a somewhat largish VLAN router (larger than
I have done before) with about 35 interfaces. Has anyone put anything like
this together ? The box would be routing about 25-30Mb at peak rate. I
recall reading something about LINUX being very inefficient when it comes
to multiple interfaces. Does FreeBSD suffer from the same fate ? I also
recall someone running into problems with 16 physical interfaces (4 x 4
multiport nics). Not sure how much of that was an hardware resource issue
and how much a software resource issue . Will it work OK in theory, or
should I spend the $8K on a 3640 ? The largest I have right now is one with
8 active VLANs and it works very well, but nothing over 10 and nothing
pushing 30+. I have built the box and it works well enough in the lab, but
I dont know of course how it will work in production.
---Mike
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