You could also go Supermicro, and build out a 1U with SFP/Copper connections and put VyOS/vyatta as a linux based routing platform....
....going that way you'll be strictly CPU/software bound though (Intel wrote up this interesting report: http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/Documentatie_SM/Intel_Microprocessor_Systems/Intel_ProcessorNew/Intel%20White%20Paper/Integrating%20Services%20at%20the%20Edge%20for%20Intel%20Xeon%205500.pdfwhich is no longer available on their site seemingly). Totally built out you'd be looking at high triple digits (the SFP PCIe card and chassis/motherboard would be your biggest hits). On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Cryptographrix <cryptograph...@gmail.com>wrote: > It also has support for some type of ipv4 and ipv6 offload. > > > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote: > > > > I was also going to recommend the EdgeRouter Pro as it has dual SFP = > > > ports and the Vyatta/Linux stuff works quite well. > > > > > > I suspect you will be very surprised with the quality experience. If = > > > you've not used Vyatta, it's very JunOS-like. > > > > Does anyone have any practical experience with the EdgeRouter with a > > largish number of prefixes? > > > > http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf > > > > The "2 million+ packets per second" leads me to believe that this is > > merely a highly optimized software based router, but under "Hardware > > Specs" it specifically says "hardware acceleration for packet > > processing". > > > > I have no idea what's being accelerated since the "layer 3 forwarding > > performance" specs for the FR-8 are 2Mpps (an 800MHz CPU) and the > > FRPro-8 are 2.4Mpps (1GHz) which suggests software lookup. > > > > Do these things suffer if you load them down with a full table? Or > > a handful of firewall rules? > > > > ... JG > > -- > > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - > http://www.sol.net > > "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] > > then I > > won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail > > spam(CNN) > > With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many > > apples. > > > -- <http://stevenmiano.com/> Miano, Steven M. http://stevenmiano.com
