On 7/21/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) > > why would you want to deal with such crap? geez.
To be blunt, because when an enterprise just needs pure unfiltered inter-VLAN routing, Cisco has CEF products which can route between interfaces at bps and pps rates unapproachable using a general purpose Unix OS and COTS hardware. In a later followup Bill Chmura clarified that his network throughput is relatively low, so for him, OpenBSD as the core router is an option. > > > I was contemplating a > > > Quad gigabit card and a 100MB Quad card (to keep the price down). I've > > > got a budget of $3000 US to build this thing. I was thinking the Intel > > > Pro 1000 Quad cards, but thats pretty pricy considering I have to > > > aquire the hardware also. > > sk(4), way better than em and cheaper too. I dunno wether there are > 4ports tho. Correct -- SysKonnect does not offer 4 port cards. I considered SK when I began my deployment, but it was easier to just stick with a company standard (at least I avoided Broadcom 'bge' NICs!) than to justify something unusual to the bean counters. > as somebody else noticed already, using a VLAN-capable switch and > hanging the OpenBSD machine off a tagged port might make sense. Unless I'm not receiving all the posts, that somebody was me. KK
