On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > > (about Pentium 3 level of performance) > > You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster than a P3 > at pushing packets, depending on NICs and the specific board. The
I was assuming a single core of the Atom being about equivalent to a Pentium 3 at the same frequency. So two cores at 1.6 GHz would be about dual-socket Pentium 3 at about 1.2 GHz that Dell used to sell. > better embedded firewall boards with Atoms can push around 500 Mbps. A That's still pretty good. I presume the Supermicro ones are the better ones. > PE750 would be faster, though takes ~8-9 times as much power. The DPE 750 has a pretty low air flow, so I thought it wouldn't be a too big power guzzler. I see that http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2007-01/msg00176.html claims 88 Watt, which means it should be only 2-3x of the Supermicro Atoms. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
