2010/3/17 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterh...@ide.resurscentrum.se> > > > > Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" <gill...@gmail.com>: > > > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow <and...@modulus.org> > > > > Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > >> > >>> Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will > >>> be involved? > >>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and > >>> motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho). > >>> > >> > >> > >> Agreed. > >> > >> The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this > sort > >> of routing/ipfw task. The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC > RAM, > >> and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU > available. > >> > >> > >> - Andrew > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > >> > > Hi, > > > > That's what I would choose : 2 or more atom miniserver and pfsync. But I > > don't know how well it can work with ipfw. > > > > Gilles > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers. > About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 pipes > (2 > pipes/customer). > > I don't think an Atom-based machine can handle this, am I wrong? > > //Jon > > I don't think an atom-based machine can handle this. But what about 4 ? Or more. D510-based motherboard are cheap and energy efficient. So good failover by total redundancy, and your router can grow easily (by adding atom)
But I think this would be harder to configure than a big CPU, with tons of ram and good NICs. Gilles _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
