From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 10:22:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45531065672 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se) Received: from mail1.cil.se (mail1.cil.se [217.197.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9458FC17 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 192.168.2.30 ([192.168.2.30]) by edusrv05.edu.irc.local ([192.168.44.14]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:23:02 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.0.0.071130 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:22:34 +0100 From: Jon Otterholm To: Gilles WAGNER , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Choosing CPU for router Thread-Index: AcrFu8Ih5ZmCeAfFZEiZwxJ0hsOwaQ== In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:22:37 -0000 Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" : > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow > > Matthias Gamsjager wrote: >> >>> Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will >>> be involved? >>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and >>> motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho). >>> >> >> >> Agreed. >> >> The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this sort >> of routing/ipfw task. The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC RAM, >> and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU available. >> >> >> - Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Hi, > > That's what I would choose : 2 or more atom miniserver and pfsync. But I > don't know how well it can work with ipfw. > > Gilles > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers. About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 pipes (2 pipes/customer). I don't think an Atom-based machine can handle this, am I wrong? //Jon