* Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 20:06]: > 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.
and they are crap. OpenBSD boxes can do far more than you imagine, and if they can't keep up any more there's still the ability to use more than one, and even when that doesn't work out any more there is no reason to use crappy buggy overpriced cisco shit, there's pretty good gear out there by Extreme Networks and Juniper. > > > > 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. a lot more vendors than just syskonnect have sk card these days, most marvell based which is syskonnect v1 which is very good. can't really believe nobody is putting an 21152 or the like and 4 of them on a card. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
