On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:13:48PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 20:06]: > > On 7/21/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above > > > > 1000Mbps, > > > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) > > > > > > why would you want to deal with such crap? geez. > > > > To be blunt, because when an enterprise just needs pure unfiltered > > inter-VLAN routing, Cisco has CEF products which can route between > > interfaces at bps and pps rates unapproachable using a general purpose > > Unix OS and COTS hardware. > > and they are crap. OpenBSD boxes can do far more than you imagine, and > if they can't keep up any more there's still the ability to use more > than one, and even when that doesn't work out any more there is no > reason to use crappy buggy overpriced cisco shit, there's pretty good > gear out there by Extreme Networks and Juniper. CEF was created to workaround the fact that Cisco has pathetically slow CPUs and that's it. Even brand new hardware to this day from Cisco comes with slow CPUs compared to other vendors like Juniper for example.
> > > > > I was contemplating a > > > > > Quad gigabit card and a 100MB Quad card (to keep the price down). > > > > > I've > > > > > got a budget of $3000 US to build this thing. I was thinking the > > > > > Intel > > > > > Pro 1000 Quad cards, but thats pretty pricy considering I have to > > > > > aquire the hardware also. > > > sk(4), way better than em and cheaper too. I dunno wether there are > > > 4ports tho. > > Correct -- SysKonnect does not offer 4 port cards. > > a lot more vendors than just syskonnect have sk card these days, most > marvell based which is syskonnect v1 which is very good. can't really > believe nobody is putting an 21152 or the like and 4 of them on a card. I do not have any SK-based cards using the newer Yukon-2 chips. If someone could get me a card or two then it would provide incentive to support the cards. SysKonnect stuff is much better than all the other Gig stuff out there.
