Greetings!
stcost - Steve Costaras schrieb:
> Actually if you are building out a new system I would
> go with a 280R. It handles (4) PCI cards which could all
> be quads plus has the faster speed processors which will help
> for heavily loaded systems.
The 280R shares the same bus topology as the 220R (basically is a beefed-up
220R), so I won't recommend more than 2 fully-loaded QFEs. It has 4 PCI slots -
but only two PCI buses. A single QFE (* 4 NIC * 100Mbit/s * 2 (duplex) = 800
Mbit/s) can give enough traffic to saturate a PCI bus - and unluckily the
E220R/E280R's double-speed PCI bus only has a single slot...
The 280R is about twice as expensive as the 220R - but could be a choice when
heavy VPN load is wanted. But then you might want to have a look into one
equipped with two CPUs and maybe VPN accelerator cards.
Bye
Volker
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Volker Tanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wrangelstr. 100, 10997 Berlin, Germany
DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions
http://www.discon.de/
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