On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:07, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Ronny Aasen wrote: > > what kind of hardware will i need to saturate a 100 mbit switched > > network. > > > > using bering, 2 nics and no vpn or masquerading this is pure routing. > > A decent pentium class system should be capable of saturating a couple > 100 MBit links. You will need to use "server class" PCI NIC's (like the > DEC based cards using the tulip driver, or the 3COM 3C905...I've heard > good things about the Intel based cards as well, but haven't tried them > personally). You'll also want a good PCI chipset (hard to quantify > without getting into lots of low-level hardware details). > > As a general rule of thumb, processing a packet takes a fairly fixed > amount of CPU, so if your saturated 100 Mbits of traffic is lots of > small packets, you'll need more CPU than if the traffic is mainly large > packets for bulk transfers. > > I think anything over a P133/166 should work fine, and something like a > P-2 or P-3 system with a BX chipset (or better...anything with a 100 MHz > FSB) would give you quite a bit of headroom.
In other word i can't buy such prosessors anymore... I'v been using VIA's C3 a lot lately, since it don't need a cpu cooler, i guess i'll stick to that. and i have quite a lot of 3c905's around. Now i just need a fanless psu.... thx for the quick replies :) mvh Ronny Aasen Datapart AS ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
