It also has support for some type of ipv4 and ipv6 offload.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Joe Greco <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was also going to recommend the EdgeRouter Pro as it has dual SFP = > > ports and the Vyatta/Linux stuff works quite well. > > > > I suspect you will be very surprised with the quality experience. If = > > you've not used Vyatta, it's very JunOS-like. > > Does anyone have any practical experience with the EdgeRouter with a > largish number of prefixes? > > http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf > > The "2 million+ packets per second" leads me to believe that this is > merely a highly optimized software based router, but under "Hardware > Specs" it specifically says "hardware acceleration for packet > processing". > > I have no idea what's being accelerated since the "layer 3 forwarding > performance" specs for the FR-8 are 2Mpps (an 800MHz CPU) and the > FRPro-8 are 2.4Mpps (1GHz) which suggests software lookup. > > Do these things suffer if you load them down with a full table? Or > a handful of firewall rules? > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] > then I > won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail > spam(CNN) > With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many > apples. >
