From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 3:19:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mr200.netcologne.de (mr200.netcologne.de [194.8.194.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE6537B43C for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 03:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-89-196.netcologne.de [213.168.89.196]) by mr200.netcologne.de (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AED01390; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:19:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3MAJWl15608; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:19:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:19:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Walter Hop Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Software router dimensions In-Reply-To: <198826702.20010421145452@binity.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Walter, On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Walter Hop wrote: > I was wondering what the dimensions should be for a software > router. For now, I would like to move around 400GB on a daily > basis; this might double in a year. Would a FreeBSD software > router be up to the task? 400GB per day = ca. 40Mbit avg. Sure, FreeBSD can do it, no problem. ...but the OS wouldn't be your problem. Depending on your needs, I would be much more concerned about the hardware. Just about anything you buy new today would be fine, but an old 75MHz pentuim with 32MB RAM and a big list of firewall rules doing full BGP peering probably wouldn't cut the mustard. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message