Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:22:34 +0100 From: Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> To: Gilles WAGNER <gillesw@gmail.com>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router Message-ID: <C7C66BFA.244BF%jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> In-Reply-To: <a952d5981003170212t1fe7b917x786c4d96cc1b1dad@mail.gmail.com>
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Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" <gillesw@gmail.com>: > 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> > > 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
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