Hi guys, first of all, thanks for all the support! Anyway, unfortunately, after all the hell I've been through with this, our CEO is not interested in buying a new server:( But let's put all the "smart" decisions aside as I have to figure out what can I replace it with. The first thing I thought about was m0n0wall, as I want to stay as close to pfSense and FreeBSD as possible. So the question is: will the x335 server with 2x3.06GHZ Xeons be enough for my traffic? To remind you, I have to handle around 150kpps, which is about 300Mb.
>From my first look at this distro I saw that it doesn't have SMP, shell access and it defaults to 30000 states, which is impossible to change unless you rebuild the whole thing from scratch. I was looking at 1.25, because as I understand it's built on FreeBSD 4, which should be faster. Plus, in pfSense I had to change a couple of things in the "em" driver, will I have to do it here too? If I stand no chance with dealing with such traffic via m0n0wall, is there anything you could advise that would actually run on this old machine? thanks, Lenny. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Borowicz, Paul <[email protected]>wrote: > I purchased some HP dl360 G5's a year and a half ago. They are still > avaliable 1U. I was able to buy a PXI-X riser card to put a fibre channel > HBA into them. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Lenny [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:15 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Can't get more than 15kpps. > > Well, actually, it's not the NICs that pushed me away from this server, > but the expansion slots. > > I intend to insert my dual port Intel, and it's PCI-X, but the Sun only has > PCI-e, so it was no good. > > Also, today, looking on ebay, I realized that it's not such an easy task - > to find a modern server with a dual core AMD (second generation) and at > least 1 PCI-X slot. The same is with Intel. And I already have 4 PCI-X > cards, so I'd rather use them. > > By the way, will AMD 275 do the job? Or is it too old and weak? > > Regarding the 2 CPUs, I'm not sure I need them, cause I'll only be using 2 > cores(each for 1 card), and as far as I saw on the previous servers - the > other 2 cores were just idle 99% of the time. (Although they were logical > cores via HT, but I don't think it makes much of a difference). > > > And now I'm about to ask a very stupid question: is it possible to just > resize the packets? (because I understand that this way I'm gonna have a > better throughput). I know changing the MTU is not advisable. > > > > thanks, > > > Lenny. > > > P.S. How's IBM x3550? any opinions? > > > Bill Marquette wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Lenny <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I got offered a Sun Fire X2200 with Opteron Dual Core 2210(that's 1.8GHz). > Will that do it? (for ~150kpps) > > > That's a little slower than what I use in prod (2218's), but it > should work - I'd want to make sure there were two physical dual core > CPUs in the box (paranoia - and well...that's what I tested ;-P). > > > > Double check the NICs in that box. I believe they're broadcom and > nvidia (yes, Sun does a mix and match on the same motherboard! You > get two of each.) Also, one of the NICs doubles as the network port > for the service processor, so if you're inclined to use the SP, you'll > need to account for that dual use on the NIC port 1. > > > Yeah, when I looked at the X2100's, they had 2 nvidia and 2 broadcoms > onboard. The real issue wasn't the nics...other than they all suck > IMO, but that to use the lights out management, you lost both > broadcoms (unless you run Solaris on them - that _might_ have changed > in the last couple years). Now, I'm not a huge fan of broadcom nics, > but leaving me with only nvidias meant I had a machine with four > completely unusable nics and I was _still_ putting a quad port nic in > the box, thus costing me more than an equivalent machine from any of > Suns competitors. > > --Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > >
