Hello!
I would need an advice about the hardware that would be enough for my project.
The network layout is like this:
ADSL2 (10Mbps/768k) ADSL2 (10Mbps/768k)
| |
| |
Branch1 <--- 10 Mbps ---> Head office <---10 Mbps----> Branch2
VPN1 | VPN2
20 Mbps
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ISP
My client has a 10Mbps leased line between offices and 20 Mbps to ISP from head
office. They also have 2 ADSL2 each with
10Mbps/768k for backup. First I was planning to secure the traffic between
offices with VPN tunnels. At head office I
was planning to use 2 OBSD boxes with CARP for failover and 1 OBSD box at each
branch office. Both boxes (at branch1 and
head office) will be doing load balancing between the two connections to ISP.
The question is, what kind of hardware would be enough for this project?
The network traffic between offices and ISP will be very fragmented with lot of
packets (80% of traffic will be some
kind of P2P traffic). I cannot predict the number of packets. For that matter I
was thinking to use some kind of
cryptography accelerators but I was advised that they not perform very well at
least vpn1411. Any comments on this?
I was thinking about an athlon 64 platform or an entry level opteron servers
with gigabit lans and/or HW cryptography
accelerator. Any recommendations? Or already tested setups? The project budget
is limited to max 6000 EUR.
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Mitja
