* Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010426 08:27] wrote:
>
> 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.
I remeber there being some sort of issue with large number of
interfaces, however I think it was trivial to fix and may have
already been. Sorry if this isn't so helpful, but I can't remeber
anyone recently popping up and complaining about the perf with
lotsa NICs in machine.
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