From owner-freebsd-net Thu Apr 26 12:17: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E5237B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3QJH0M98954; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:17:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010426141648.0223c030@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:10:34 -0400 To: sthaug@nethelp.no From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: number of interfaces and performance ? Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <81646.988309009@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010426134003.040f2b60@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:16 PM 4/26/01 +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Hmmm.. This does look interesting. Note that there is way more bandwidth > > than I need. Like I said, I am only going to push tops 30Mb/s through the > > thing. The cisco would certainly do the job, but I am still looking at 10 > > times the cost. If I need to spend the money I will, I just hate spending > > the money needlessly. > >I'm quite sure that you could get a FreeBSD box to perform adequately >with 30 Mbps through the box. You may have less hassle with a Cisco box, >but as you have noticed it'll cost you. I mentioned the 2948G-L3 simply >as an alternative to the 3640. Thanks. Actually, once I add a couple of FastEs to the 3640, its about the same price for the switch! So this is very helpful and would do better for me than the 3640. (Both are about $10K CDN). I guess my main concern with the FreeBSD solution is if having 30+ interfaces will slow it down in production. I have a couple of boxes routing more this level of traffic through a couple of fxps and an OC-3 interface with great results. But will having 30+ interfaces mean that the box will route significantly slower or add a lot of latency. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message