hello there we are planning a medium lan party with about 200 - 300 clients. it's a normal gamer lan party but there will be a lot of traffic.
we will habe about 6 subnets (like 10.5.0.0/24, 10.6.0.0/24, and so on) that we have to route under each other. if we get a good sponsor we may habe some layer 3 cisco swiches that can do wirespeed routing. but i dont think so... i may have to get some 3 GHz Intel P4 Boxes (About 1 GB Memory) and do the VLAN Routing on these openbsd boxes. will i get about 1GBit/s throughput with such a box? is it better to use a gigabit ethernet card for each subnet or should i get the vlans on one intel card? is it better to route all vlans on one box or should i split up the routing on about 3 boxes? may anyone have some nice ideas! thanks a lot... kind regards marco
