Hi Dave, fantastic to have the assurance! I am currently getting a 2nd box for redundancy purpose... so am sizing up the specs. If this project goes well using Vyatta, I am going to recommend to get the subscription for it to access more info hehe
Btw, is it possible to achieve any form of automatic failover with Vyatta, since I have 2 boxes... with 2 separate FE-port Thanks people! Daren -----Original Message----- From: Dave Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:42 To: 'Daren Tay'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Vyatta-users] Performance of Vyatta - what should I note > I am using a rather simple Dell server for my Vyatta > solution; a P4-D 2.8Ghz with 1GB ram. > For an infrastructure of an uplink of 4Mbps, and projected to > grow, will this be enough? > > What should I take note considering I am doing rather > intensive NAT-ing (heck, I don't even know if it qualifies to > be called intensive) Should I have more ram to handle a > bigger route table? > Or would a more power processor help? > > Or would any of these be redundant? That will be plenty. See the Hardware Performance Guide on the web site in the whitepapers section (http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/whitepapers.php) for more info about performance you will be able to achieve with given config. Suffice it to say that anything 100 Mbps or less is easily achievable with just about any 1 GHz system out there, even with NAT. We have shown a 2.8 GHz system running at 2 Gbps in the Tolly test on the web site. Whether you're able to achieve this depends highly on the bus structure in the particular system, however (it's an I/O problem more than a processor problem). See the Perf Guide for more info and discussion. If you are planning on having a large routing table (full BGP feeds), then you'll want to stock up on RAM. If you're doing anything short of that, 1 GB is fine. In short, your system sounds fine to handle everything you have described. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users
