Hi Last month I installed OpenBSD 3.7 on an Intel P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, Intel server board (E7221) and four intel NICs (two fxp and two em)
It's used as an intranet router for a campus (PIM TV multicast with xorp, squid and sometimes snort) routing between different parts of the campus and preventing unwanted traffic to pass between them. (and routing outgoing traffic to another obenbsd router connected to internet) There are approx. 600 users (student WIN boxes and some servers (game/samba) )on the LAN and the load on the machine is 20% max. (with snort running) **** A friend of mine maintains similar LAN with similar HW. (but has a desktop MSI board (intel 865 chipset) with realtek and 3com NICs, the same processor etc...) with Debian His machine (with cca the same throughput) running squid and xorp has 70% load, forget about snort. **** I'm wondering why there's so big difference. Maybe NIC or chipset together with OS ;) Anyway, I'm absolutely satisfied with all my OBSD machines. Great work. Peter Huncar IT manager GTS Slovakia s.r.o. Liscie udolie 5 841 02 Bratislava ************************* tel: (+421) (2) 57781 101 fax: (+421) (2) 57781 117 cell: (+421) 905 580 724
