> Short answer: no DOCSIS cable modems are designed for that kind of > throughput!
Ugh... I've been suspecting that. > Juniper sells MX480 routers to 10,000-customer-ISPs for ~$250k! > (Granted, that *is* overkill, but even 10k-user corporations will have > fairly high-end routers connected via fiber to handle that much traffic.) Yikes. That's way outside of my budget. I suspect co-locating or leasing a T3 are really my only options. > Your best bet, I think, would be to find a DOCSIS 3 cable modem that can > be put into bridging mode. At that point, the CPU/RAM limitations of > the cable modem are no longer relevant. > > Some confirmation: > - > http://jkoblovsky.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/how-to-use-your-own-router-with-rogers-docsis-3-0-upgrade/ > - > http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Getting_connected/thread-id/12199 > (implies Hitron and Moto/ARRIS modems can also do bridge-mode) > - http://digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=145997&page=6 > (implies SMC modem can do bridge mode) > - http://www.dslreports.com/faq/comcast/2.1_Modems#17174 > (Comcast-specific) > > Once your modem is in bridge mode, the bottleneck should be your > router. As you've mentioned, your ALIX boxes are pretty much at their > limit, too, so you're just moving the bottleneck around. I've enabled bridging for the statics and it's still giving me trouble. I think I'm going to wind up having to dig through the specs of the highest-end cable modems I can find and buy the one with the most CPU/RAM. Thanks for the links -- I didn't know they made 24x8's. If any cable modem can handle the load I'm generating I bet it'd be one of those. -Davod _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
