ok thanks i think, 400 Mbit/s throughput should be enough for this usage.
another question: does anyone know if there is a network card that can do something like cisco wirespeed routing? or is there anything that can handle software and hardware routing on a normal intel box? > 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. is there something that i can do with carp? or how is a router cluster to realise? the problem is, i dont want a fail over, i need performance. whats about this: i put 3 intel boxes with 2 Gbit nics in each one in a privat subnet with the first card. on the secount card i pull out 2 vlans on each machine. now i can do the routing with static routing on these 3 machines. vlan1 and 2 is on machine A vlan3 and 4 is on machine B vlan5 and 6 is on machine C so traffic from 5 to 6 is routet on C only, so i dont have any performance needed on A and B but traffice from e.g. 1 to 3 needs prformance on A and B. you think thats a good idea? thanks a lot, kind regards marco Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 12:03 +0000 schrieb tony sarendal: > 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 > > -- > Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IP/Unix > -= The scorpion replied, > "I couldn't help it, it's my nature" =-
