Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-23 Thread Bill Hacker
Adrian Chadd wrote: On 20/02/2008, Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Routing and firewalling is a specialty that has become a very high-volume hardware/ASIC/RTOS field where any router a PC could at one time match on speed has become so cheap and flexible off-the-shelf it is no longer

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Hayes
Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hayes wrote: Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? What sort of hardware, As yet

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-19 Thread Bill Hacker
Dave Hayes wrote: Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hayes wrote: Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? What sort of hardware,

Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-17 Thread Dave Hayes
Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions expressed above are

Re: Dragonfly Routers

2008-02-17 Thread Bill Hacker
Dave Hayes wrote: Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? What sort of hardware, application, load? I've run six pci-bus 10/100 NICs as