Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-25 Thread Jon Otterholm
Den 2010-03-23 19.36, skrev "Jon Otterholm" : > > > > Den 2010-03-23 14.12, skrev "Ivan Voras" : > >> On 03/18/10 01:32, Andrew Snow wrote: >>> >>> Jon Otterholm wrote: This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers. About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. Th

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-23 Thread Jon Otterholm
Den 2010-03-23 14.12, skrev "Ivan Voras" : > On 03/18/10 01:32, Andrew Snow wrote: >> >> Jon Otterholm wrote: >>> This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 >>> FTTH-customers. >>> About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 >>> pipes (2 >>> pipes/custom

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/18/10 01:32, Andrew Snow wrote: Jon Otterholm wrote: This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers. About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 pipes (2 pipes/customer). That doesn't sound right, 200kpps @ 500Mbps works out to an avera

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Snow
Jon Otterholm wrote: This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers. About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 pipes (2 pipes/customer). That doesn't sound right, 200kpps @ 500Mbps works out to an average packet size of 250 bytes? Am I

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-17 Thread Brandon Penglase
Now that we know the purpose for the router, yes, you will need a beefy box. Especially if you're going to be running something like Quagga to handle IGP (which you may or may not be doing...), you will need the RAM and CPU. If you build a box, get server hardware. I know of one place that uses Del

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Jon Otterholm wrote: Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" : 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this sort of routing/ipfw task. The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC RAM, and even then you can get away with just using the che

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-17 Thread Gilles WAGNER
2010/3/17 Jon Otterholm > > > > Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" : > > > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow > > > > Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > >> > >>> Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will > >>> be involved? > >>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pr

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-17 Thread Jon Otterholm
Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" : > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow > > Matthias Gamsjager wrote: >> >>> Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will >>> be involved? >>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and >>> motherboard (eec mem is goo

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Han Hwei Woo
rnet traffic. Do you need core i5/7 ? -------- Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router From: Andrei Kolu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:01 +0200 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org 2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm : Hi.

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Andrew Snow
Matthias Gamsjager wrote: Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will be involved? Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho). Agreed. The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Дмитрий Замураев
>2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm : >> >> Narrowed it down to the following: >> >> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz >> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz >> >> What would be the benefit from a Xeon? >> >> The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with >> that, standard services like dhcpd. >

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/16/10 13:40, Jon Otterholm wrote: Hi. In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible CPU for the job. Narrowed it down to the following: Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz Both are overkill, but in general here you should go for clock speed i

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Andrei Kolu
2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm : > Hi. > > In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible > CPU for the job. > > Narrowed it down to the following: > > Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz > Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz > > What would be the benefit from a Xeon? > > Motherboard: Supermicro X8S

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Andrei Kolu
2010/3/16 Andrei Kolu : > 2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm : >> Hi. >> >> In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible >> CPU for the job. >> >> Narrowed it down to the following: >> >> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz >> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz >> >> What would be the benefit from a

Re: Choosing CPU for router

2010-03-16 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will be involved? Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho). On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jon Otterholm wrote: > Hi. > > In the process to build a new route