On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 08:04 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote: > >> The AMD Geode LX800 isn't enough for this task? The Alix 2c3 boards >> can often be found running pfSense and they can handle a lot... >> Besides, it's a small board that takes way less space than 1U, it's >> basically a small firewall box, fanless. > > Routing is routing, but throughput and exactly what kind of routing you > want to do are the issues. > > For example, our routers run on 1.6 Ghz P4 processors, but all they do > is create subnets and route to one upstream which routes to the 'net at > large. We run a bare CentOS5 distribution, but our next one will > probably be DSL (Damn Small Linux) because all we really use is > iptables and an editor to edit the startup script that controls it. > > Up to 40 servers, 512 routable IP#s on the lan side, and 10 mbps > average throughput, over 90% outbound, on the wan side, without any > problems. >
This info is too generic. If you're putting 10mbps thru it (which is not a whole lot) and doing basic routing and NAT'ing, what's the CPU and memory load? This 1.6 P4 might be at 5-10%. > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
