On 2/16/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I might have to set up a firewall which can handle GBit throughput. I'd like to do this redundant, preferrably in 1U. Can a VIA EPIA C7 EDEN handle this, with the expansion board (Realtek chipset, IIRC)?
The primary thing to remember is that (like Dan states) any 32-bit 33MHz bus is going to have a peak bandwidth of just over 1Gb/s - meaning gigabit will saturate the bus, if you could get there. Add that to the way the RTL chipsets load your CPU with software interrupts, and things don't look too rosy to me. 2-300Mb/s may be too much to ask, and that even at peak.
If this is a (crack) pipe dream, anyone been able to run pfSense on a SunFire X2100 M2? It's supposed to have 4 GBit ethernet ports, but I don't know which chipset. (The X2100 had an nForce and a Broadcom
I haven't, but it shouldn't be an issue - it's a standard x86 design, and the processors run 32-bit code just as well as they do 64-bit. Any new server you buy with gigabit ports is going to have them on a PCI-X or PCI-E bus with a minimum of 2.5Gb/s dedicated bandwidth. If you don't need 4 ports, go for the X2100 and save a few EUR. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
