On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:29:24PM -0800, James Peltier wrote:
Hi All,
I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine
serving a university network. The current Cisco setup is basically
providing routing and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve switches with
some basic firewall services. I'd like to look at replacing it with
an OpenBSD based solution but I am unsure as to whether OpenBSD is up
to the task.
Does anyone have any hard evidence that a high quality machine
running OpenBSD would be sufficent to replace such a unit? Anything
I may want to investigate further prior to pitching this to my
manager.
He's aware of the benefits to OpenBSD such as the multitude of
features available in the stock system, but is a bit worried that
it will not be able to keep up. We're only pushing about 50-60M
during peak times and are only providing services over a gigabit link
between buildings so I think it will be able to keep up. PPS and
memory latency are the key issues to tackle I think.
Any hints, direction, or "yeah, I've done it here.." style cases are
greatly appreciated.
I'm your manager, I'm going to ask you, "Why"? Is the 6506 not working?
If you were building a new setup I'd be more agreeable, but it sounds
like you have a working setup.
So, really, what nut are you trying to crack?
diana
