Johan Beisser wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, phoenixcomm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Gang,
well heres my 3 cents,
first why use a stupid PC (any os) for routing...... REALY BAD jue,jue brake
down and buy a old Cisco 7200, 7500, 3600 they are all very good routers, I
used a 7500 for a while and now use a 3640
i use pf as a transparent bridge behind my router.. and protects my servers
I have 3 nics, (world, dmz, ssh)
How odd. I know at least one site that runs all of their BGP off of
OpenBGP on OpenBSD boxes that are dedicated as routers. In all cases,
these systems outperform the equivalent Cisco hardware for a fraction
of the cost.
Forget this. Cisco does CEF (cisco express forwarding) that's stream
forwarding in hardware. You don't have a chance to reach this PPS with a
pc / server based router (any os). And I don't think there is any
equivalent hardware for Cisco and other router vendors. Because only
routing decision is done in CPU / memory, packet forwarding is done on
the "hardware layer"... so you can't compare Cisco CPU / memory against
PC cpu / memory that's not fair :-)
But software routers e.g. OpenBSD are cheap and work well. If you don't
need more than about 800Mbit/s throughput and you want to save some
money us software routers... but agree, with a good server hardware,
intel nics, dual core cpu, etc. you can get good performance out off a
server based router / firewall.
