On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
That Vyatta hardware uses a VIA 1GHz processor. 200mbps only for L3 forwarding, add other features to it and it'll drop considerably. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
