--On 03 May 2005 22:47 +0100, Stephen Marley wrote:
If you can be bothered reading all this and even answer just some of my questions I'd be very pleased!
I might need to do something similar soon (Neos rather than LES100, but again just an ethernet-presented connection from a telco between the sites)... I'll be interested to read any advice offered about how to arrange routing.
Finally, do you think some standard PCs/soekris boxes (perhaps with CARP for failover?) would be sufficient for the routers?
Without crypto (either software or driving an accelerator card), the net4801 runs out of steam transmitting at around 25Mbit/sec on OpenBSD (seems to be regardless of nic.. I haven't tried the cheap sk I just got from Maplin, but em/rl/sis are similar speeds). Standard PCs are a lot faster (even at similar MHz speeds), but of course miss the advantages of the Soekris boards. <http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-March/022860.html> shows their future directions (including a mobile Athlon 64 board, but not for some time).
