Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:25:00 -0400 (EDT) From: chloe K <chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca> To: Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10/100/1000 Ethernet hardware recommendation Message-ID: <605197.38193.qm@web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <466193DE.4090403@vindaloo.com>
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What is the bandwidth of your upstream? if it is not more than 155M, my experience desktop GigE is fine for you.
Between DMZ and the Local LAN, you can consider the 64 bit cards if you have high volume of data transfer. but 32 bit cards is enough.
For the hardware, I am using "CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz with 2G memory. Don't need the modern hardware if you don't have many applications running and just use it as routing
Thank you
Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote:
chloe K wrote:
> intel desktop GigE (32 bits) around 380M
> intel server GigE (64 bits) around 800M - 900M
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While this may seem obvious I'm gonna ask it anyway. I'm being pedantic
here and assuming:
The performance numbers are best case MBytes per second;
That the 64bit card is in a 64bit slot;
That the 64bit card in a 32bit slot would give similar performance
to the 32 bit card.
A little information about my situation is probably in order. I have a
DMZ with FreeBSD box acting as a NAS (samba/dav/nfs fileshare); a
postgresql database server; a mysql database server; and an apache
webserver; and a postfix mail server. All of these machines are older
Pentium III 1GHz single or dual CPU class machines. It's more than
enough performance for the bulk of my clients which are bottlenecked by
their connection over the internet. I'd like to go to Gig E to improve
performance for a hand full of clients on the local LAN and to move
critical data out of the DMZ. Eventually I plan to replace the current
generation of servers with something more modern like HP DL360 G5 and
DL380 G5 hardware.
Based on that, if my assumptions are correct then the 64bit Intel
Hardware seems to be the way to go.
-- Chris
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