On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:22:19PM -0800, rabbtux rabbtux wrote: > So, I'm their first beta tester in my area and they have this used > Redback router. First there were problems that were to be solved with > a firmware upgrade, now they have a hardware failure without a spare. > I'm not familiar with this router at all, but discussed it with their > sysadmin.
Redback should be good stuff, if they didn't get one that someone drug out of a dumpster. > Apparently the need is for something that can handle 2000 sessions > and has full 100Mbps NICs and can support that speed. I'm not a pppoe > expert, but would a decent PC, with 4/8GB of RAM and mikrotik SW > installed handle something like this??? Butch? or other MT experts? > Or is this requirement way out of the MT league? I have heard of 8,000 sessions terminated on a Cisco 7200VXR with an NPE-G1. I currently have just over 1,700 PPPoEoATM sessions on our used VXR doing about 28Mbps of DSL traffic and our backhaul running about 50Mbps for all of our services (DSL/Wireless/Hosting/Dialup) and it's not working hard. To do that on a PC, with as high an expectation of reliability, I'd probably have spent close to the same amount of money to get high grade, highly redundant parts. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/