On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:57:33PM -0600, Balázs Nagy wrote: > For most applications we love the Soekris boxes. However, we need to > firewall some streaming media servers that push several hundred Mbps. > We currently get Cat5 hand-offs from the the data-center, but we can > increase the stability of our streaming network by getting direct > backbone connections with multi mode fiber links. > > Does anyone have gear to recommend that we could use instead of Cisco > 36xx series? I would prefer running bgpd on OpenBSD if I can find > hardware that is fast enough to handle 400Mbps at the gateway and more > internally. > > I guess the 5501 even with the 2 PCI slots doesn't have the throughput > to handle that much traffic, although I wish it did. Perhaps a 5501 > with PCI-X or PCI-E will see the light of day?
Hi, if you have many small packets at this rate, the box will see a high rate of interrupts. You should consider to run OpenBSD on something like a 1HE Server from HP, IBM or whatever you prefer. As much as the small boards are nice, 500Mbps and more is out of their league. Cheers, Rainer Ruecker > > All the best, > Balázs _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
