Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms (about Pentium 3 level of performance) You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms (about Pentium 3 level of performance) You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:14:47AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms (about Pentium 3 level of

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Just in case somebody has the same hardware, here's a dmesg dump Notice I had to put # cat /boot/loader.conf legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 to get of legal warnings in the dmesg output. Thanks - I have about 300 of these sitting in stacks at the moment, and

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:06:46PM +, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Just in case somebody has the same hardware, here's a dmesg dump Notice I had to put # cat /boot/loader.conf legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 to get of legal warnings in the dmesg output.

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Hope you've got a few PCI-X dual-port Intel NICs as well, these can be hard to get nowadays, even used. Up to my ears. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Greg Hennessy
Depends on what you mean by Gbit ? Gigabit @ imix packet distribution ? possibly. Gigabit @ high rate, small packet size, very doubtful. Greg -Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eu...@leitl.org] Sent: 26 October 2010 5:35 PM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject:

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote: Depends on what you mean by Gbit ? Gigabit @ imix packet distribution ? possibly. It's a GBit link at a colo, pretty lightly loaded at the moment. Gigabit @ high rate, small packet size, very doubtful. It would probably