* Frans Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-08 12:19]: > Greetings, > > The idea is to switch to OpenBSD for our BGP > D/PF. In the future we will get Gigabit connections so I am concerned > about performance! > > The idea is to have 2 carped boxes voor OpenBGPD and Packetfilter. > Then behind that 2 carped boxes for IPSEC & Packetfilter (future) > > I am assuming with currentday hardware this should be a breeze for the > machines. But I'd love to hear from people filtering gigabit and what > to be aware off when setting it up....
we've been thru that a thousand times now, use the archives. short summary: bandwidth irrelevant, pps counts. with careful selection of network cards and busses etc, you can get way highger thruput than you expect. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
