Here is a good page giving you some examples on the hardware specs you need for a router/firewall machine.
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49 A machine acting as just a router is going to use less power than something using endian, smoothwall, pfsense, because they are not going to be doing a lot of the other stuff like VPN, IDS, etc. Here is one of the vyatta appliances, http://www2.vyatta.com/store/Vyatta-514 which I doubt has a hefty processor in it and pushes 200mbps. On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > > > > This info is too generic. If you're putting 10mbps thru it (which is > not a whole lot) and doing basic routing and NAT'ing, what's the CPU > and memory load? This 1.6 P4 might be at 5-10%. > > > 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"; > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
