most 1U units come with 2 gig ethernet ports now days and you can add a
quad-gig intel pci-x card to them. Thats what we did.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/ for the machines (case+mb)
you can buy these machines from lots of different resellers. newegg.com
is where we got ours. they also had the retail processors we wanted
(3ghz P4), the memory and the harddrives. We went with these cases
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5014/SYS-5014C-MF.cfm in
the black version (like having all the ports on the front of the
machine, shorter cables). Supermicro doesn't offer AMD stuff but do
offer the Xeon 64bit EM64T
We built two of them for redudancy and if you search the mailing list
archives I posted some throughput numbers earlier this year. They work
fine with freebsd. I did disable Hyperthreading, APIC, ACPI, APM etc on
everything though. Both machines have been up without reboot for 3
months now.
-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jure Pečar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: [pfSense-discussion] hw sizing
Hi all,
I'm evaluating pfSense for our company. Functionally it looks like it has
all the features I'd like to have, the only thing I'm not sure about right
now is what kind of hardware do I need to put at it to get the job done.
I remember years back at the time of linux 2.4 there were some tests about
how a 2.4 kernel on a pII 400MHz with a slightly overclocked pci bus can
route traffic between four 100MBit interfaces without packet loss. Does
anyone have some links to tests like that for today's world of gigabit
links?
Specifically, I have a gigabit wan and internal lan consisting of
something like 30 VLANs with different requirements for access (who can
access what) and bandwith. Some of these vlans host large web services
(hundred thousands of users). Right now we're pushing about 60GB web
traffic per day just from these.
Are the xeons and opterons of today up to such tasks? I hope they are, I'd
just like some real world conformation.
Also, Are there any boards for 1U rack cases with at least 4 onboard NICs?
Thanks,
--
Jure Pečar
http://jure.pecar.org
