From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 12 14:57:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0B337B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (fump.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.181.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A603343E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gACMvHlK000424 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:57:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from alex@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from alex@localhost) by fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gACMvHEK000423 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:57:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:57:17 +0100 From: Alexander Langer To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Hardware for Firewalling Gigabit Ethernet Message-ID: <20021112225717.GL94076@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! We are about to switch to Gigabit Ethernet in a while, and thus the Duron 700, which currently does traffic accounting with 2 fxp cards very well, will have to be replaced with a box that is able to handle that. We thought about some big machine with 64bit/66 MHz PCI slots, but are not sure about the hardware yet. I wondered if anyone is doing that? I'm also interested in stats, if you only do routing w/o firewalling/packet filtering, or similar. What hardware are you using? What's the throughout you reach over that box? We would be happy to reach 500Mbit/s full-duplex :) Any hints on hardware? Chipsets? CPUs? (Our accouting ruleset includes approx. 3300 IPFW2 rules :) Thanks for any tips Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message