On 29/01/06, Marco Fretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Probably not. Your box will be limited by the pps it can handle.
I don't know exactly what pps your hardware can handle, but I guess
around 100-200kpps shouldn't be totally unrealistic.
If your average packet size is 300 bytes your box will be able to handle
a total throughput of 240-480Mbps.
> is it better to use a gigabit ethernet card for each subnet or should i
> get the vlans on one intel card?
I personally like the vlan trunk setup if it's a statically routed
environment,
been using it since around -98 or -99 without problems.
is it better to route all vlans on one box or should i split up the
> routing on about 3 boxes?
Since your boxes may have problems if you expect 1Gbps of traffic
load sharing may help the situation a bit.
There are a few ways of doing thit depending on environment.
If you do this on OpenBSD, I would appreciate it if you could give us a
summary
afterwards on how things went and what kind of performance you got.
/Tony
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Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP/Unix
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