With a Chelsio T5 you might get some decent pure routing / NAT performance with the right card mod, but as soon as it goes into firewall/ACL/QoS etc, performance will tank drastically. On Apr 18, 2016 7:49 AM, "Micah Croff" <micahcr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't tried to do 10Gb with it but pfSense isn't a horrible option. > I've done 1G with left over computer parts and for the most part it works > well. > > https://www.pfsense.org/ > > For "free" software it is pretty feature rich. > > Micah > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:18 PM, David Sotnick <sotnickd-na...@ddv.com> > wrote: > > > Hello masters of the Internet, > > > > I was recently asked to set up networking at a VIP's home where he has > > Comcast "Gigabit Pro" service, which is delivered on a 10G-SR MM port on > a > > Comcast-supplied Juniper ACX-2100 router. > > > > Which customer router would you suggest for such a setup? It needs to do > > IPv4 NAT, DHCP, IPv4+IPv6 routing and have a decent L4 firewall (that > also > > supports IPv6). > > > > The customer pays for "2Gb" service (Comcast caps this at 2G+10% = > 2.2Gbps) > > and would like to get what he pays for (*cough*) by having the ability to > > stream two 1Gbps streams (or at least achieve > 1.0Gbps). > > > > I'm tempted to get another ACX-2100 and do a 4x1Gb LACP port-channel to > the > > customer switch, or replace the AV-integrator-installed Cisco SG300-52P > > (Cisco switch with e.g. an EX-3300 with 10Gb uplinks). > > > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. > > > > -Dave > > >
