From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 10:34:13 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 DA6FE106564A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gillesw@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6253E8FC1C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so338009fxm.3 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:34:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Z+h197kitPwxzdJNZNMgg7oZt/PlF+emYiIJg0rwlqM=; b=pS7HPEcnJPNIrTSqY7HUZqRZy6hOCgsvp9oO2k/7PUMm+utjset2FtOdZhr+91TUx7 srKmxuwjjt4FHyilMjNjQZlV7ApCNEDuzVJyOGfklKTbdRo6JfpMCRrN2lXGjFMzjjeR tvf4QafSebx5tKcdFiwl7BDLtYUcC9gUw1ivA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=UlF3uVZnaxNdZRetsZnnAn4hFa+ASqF7JZNPdSgXwhGDm2Ua5I1AS4JBCUD+J72Rfx ETKs2Lx3ah912MTQUg7MaeLjGWKpfpmsfzEs7GTHHhuIJ39kxY9IbQGR1B/0hEkgfTNn VKFEDZBr18UE+cMT2tF9Xv9JrptO3KnMDSU4U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.135.78 with SMTP id c14mr809960hbc.187.1268822052172; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:34:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Gilles WAGNER Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:33:57 +0100 Message-ID: To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 10:34:13 -0000 2010/3/17 Jon Otterholm > > > > 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 > > I don't think an atom-based machine can handle this. But what about 4 ? Or more. D510-based motherboard are cheap and energy efficient. So good failover by total redundancy, and your router can grow easily (by adding atom) But I think this would be harder to configure than a big CPU, with tons of ram and good NICs. Gilles