Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit will put some load on the CPU but it was able to handle it pretty well. I dont have exact PPS for you, but it should be able to do 30mbit/sec easily. - Original Message - From: Gene gh5...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:20:21 AM Subject: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, reza r...@lethalnetworks.com wrote: Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit will put some load on the CPU but it was able to handle it pretty well. I dont have exact PPS for you, but it should be able to do 30mbit/sec easily. The environment will have two WAN connections, each is a 50Mbit/10Mbit pipe. I have a couple of the ALIX2d3 boards myself. They're great little devices. If it can handle 30Mbit it would seem the larger Soekris system (Atom 1.6GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, Intel NICs) should be more than capable. Thank you. -Gene - Original Message - From: Gene gh5...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:20:21 AM Subject: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
Hi I actually use this system for our office of roughly 10 people. DHCP, Squid, SquidGuard, Snort, IPSEC and PF. Works like a champ. Only a single 100Mbit pipe coming in, but we are able to hit 97Mbit on downloads. I haven't tested the throughput yet on the VPN side. Marc On 02/15/2013 02:38 PM, Gene wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, reza r...@lethalnetworks.com wrote: Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit will put some load on the CPU but it was able to handle it pretty well. I dont have exact PPS for you, but it should be able to do 30mbit/sec easily. The environment will have two WAN connections, each is a 50Mbit/10Mbit pipe. I have a couple of the ALIX2d3 boards myself. They're great little devices. If it can handle 30Mbit it would seem the larger Soekris system (Atom 1.6GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, Intel NICs) should be more than capable. Thank you. -Gene - Original Message - From: Gene gh5...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:20:21 AM Subject: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
Even a 5501 or Alix would probably be enough for that quantity of user. If your in north america, you should look lanner fw-7535 that cost less than a net6501-70. It's a great router and lanner have a really good customer support, one of the best I have seen. Michel
Re: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall
Depending on pps an alix might be pushing it. In any event it wouldn't give a lot of headroom. Soekris 6501, axiomtek na320 etc would be better, though depending on the environment a dell r210 or some supermicro box with core/xeon e3 might also be good choices. On 2013-02-15, reza r...@lethalnetworks.com wrote: Gene, I've used the PcEngines Alix2d3 board with Freebsd for a similiarly sized office and had good success with it. We had a 30mbit pipe, 30 users, VoIP/QoS and IPSec to our 3 data centers. Doing IPSec around 15mbit will put some load on the CPU but it was able to handle it pretty well. I dont have exact PPS for you, but it should be able to do 30mbit/sec easily. - Original Message - From: Gene gh5...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:20:21 AM Subject: Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall Is anyone here using the Soekris net6501-70 as a router+firewall? If so what kind of performance are you seeing (throughput, PPS, etc)? I'm considering this system for a 30-40 user environment. It will handle web, ssh, voip, and other basic traffic. QoS will be needed. Thanks. -Gene
