On Friday 06 March 2009 08:04 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote: > The AMD Geode LX800 isn't enough for this task? The Alix 2c3 boards > can often be found running pfSense and they can handle a lot... > Besides, it's a small board that takes way less space than 1U, it's > basically a small firewall box, fanless.
Routing is routing, but throughput and exactly what kind of routing you want to do are the issues. For example, our routers run on 1.6 Ghz P4 processors, but all they do is create subnets and route to one upstream which routes to the 'net at large. We run a bare CentOS5 distribution, but our next one will probably be DSL (Damn Small Linux) because all we really use is iptables and an editor to edit the startup script that controls it. Up to 40 servers, 512 routable IP#s on the lan side, and 10 mbps average throughput, over 90% outbound, on the wan side, without any problems. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
