Jon Otterholm
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:22:58 -0700
Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" <gill...@gmail.com>: > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow <and...@modulus.org> > > 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 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 cheapest CPU available. >> >> >> - Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > Hi, > > That's what I would choose : 2 or more atom miniserver and pfsync. But I > don't know how well it can work with ipfw. > > Gilles > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" 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). I don't think an Atom-based machine can handle this, am I wrong? //Jon _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"