Although not at 4-5 Gb/s but closer to 1 Gb/s Tor, plus a bit more from other things, mostly outgoing, I can tell VyOS works fine.. It’s basically the Linux kernel doing all the forwarding and it has iptables, so you should be fine if the hardware is capable..
> On 11 Oct 2018, at 07:38, Conrad Rockenhaus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I’m researching for a new colo, and in order to bring it online until I can > consolidate some hardware, I would like to temporarily run a VyOS Router as > the main router so I can start getting things online sooner than later. This > VyOS Router will be running BGP with the upstream providers, IPv4, and IPv6, > and basic filtering to protect the router and other essential hardware. > > I’ve seen VyOS perform quite wonderfully on 4-6 gbps links with traffic > coming primarily from a CDN. My question is does anyone here have any > experience running VyOS with that much traffic with that traffic primarily > consisting of Tor traffic? Are there any other suggestions for a basic > non-hardware router based solution as a temporary implementation, perhaps > even using FreeBSD? > > Thanks, > > Conrad > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
