On 22:56, Thu 11 Feb 10, Mike Williams wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 19:46:22 Henning Brauer wrote: > > > yes, people run firewalls on 10G circuits > > > > > > I am not aware of anyone filtering at 10G who is using off the shelf > > > hardware, with open source O/S. > > > > I know of some. > > Thanks very much guys, much useful information. > I'll be sure to purchase servers with the fastest graphics cards possible! > > We had a Juniper tech in today, and he suggested the SRX-3600. It's almost > certainly faster than any single software platform can do (~18Gbps IMIX), but > is it worth 10 times the price, and 5U of rack space? Especially for a > parallisable problem. > Junos can't come close to the scriptable service monitoring and route > manipulation that almost trivially easy on openbsd either.
Then break it up in segments and use junos to do the heavy routing and use openbsd on the 1Gbps or slower links. -- Michiel van Baak mich...@vanbaak.eu http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?"
