----- Forwarded message from Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> ----- From: Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:36:10 +0800 To: Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> CC: Jason Lewis <jle...@packetnexus.com>, NANOG list <na...@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Low end, cool CPE. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6
On 11/12/10 11:30 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Jason Lewis wrote: >> Everytime I'm in the market for a device like you describe, it comes >> down to the limitations of consumer devices. You can't get all those >> things in a low cost solution. I end up rolling my own. My latest >> system is this >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-PHF.cfm <snip> >> , with Endian http://endian.com/en/community/download/ and an >> additional dual port nic. With all the parts (HD,NIC) it's under >> $400. >> >> It's an atom board, so you could put whatever you wanted on it. I >> have a 50mbps net connection and it doesn't have any issues. > > Works well on GBit/s as well. I haven't measured the throughput > yet, though. Should be ~500 MBit/s, assuming a single Atom core > is about equivalent to a Pentium 3 at the same frequency. An atom should easily be able to forward some high fraction of a gig between two pci-e 1x connected interfaces certainly in the soho context such a box can do ipsec at farily reasonable rates as well. Regarding equivalence to a PIII an atom is a scalar rather than super scalar device. it is slower clock for clock than a pIII but there are also multicore variants and of course they run faster at loewr poper consumption rates than the equivalent PIII derived embedded processor such as the intel a800 > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
