> 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 ?
As long as you're just doing Ethernet, you might want to consider the
2948G-L3 as an alternative to a 3640. IP routing in hardware, 48 10/100
ports and 2 Gigabit ports. *Way* more backplane bandwidth and pps than
the 3640. Con: No access lists on the 10/100 ports.
We're using these as pure routers (no bridging), and they're working very
well. (We used to have the 2948G-L3 do bridging also, that did *not* work
very well.)
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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