I read that article and it basically compared it to a cisco 2800 series router, which is usually used for small scale, 10/100 or T1 sized implementations, the VIA processor or even an old P4 is more than enough for routing those types of scenarios, the advantage of the cisco is that you can tack on some of the VPN stuff without slowing the box down too much.
As far as route table size, a gig of RAM is more than enough to hold the entire internet routing table at this moment. 512 is enough to hold 1-2 peers with full routes, this is speaking of BGP or OSPF. In our large scale routing environments we actually use Zebra as route servers which work perfectly fine for BGP route reflection as long as they're not pushing traffic, so there's that alternative, you can run multiple Zebra daemons or a consolidated Zebra daemon to do dynamic area or even edge/border routing on a powerful enough appliance, or buy a Dell SC1425 off ebay for 300 bucks and you have a beast of a router, although power consumption is more on the high side. -the other DK On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is a good page giving you some examples on the hardware specs you > need > > for a router/firewall machine. > > > > > http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49 > > > > A machine acting as just a router is going to use less power than > something > > using endian, smoothwall, pfsense, because they are not going to be doing > a > > lot of the other stuff like VPN, IDS, etc. > > > > Here is one of the vyatta appliances, > > http://www2.vyatta.com/store/Vyatta-514 which I doubt has a hefty > processor > > in it and pushes 200mbps. > > > > That Vyatta hardware uses a VIA 1GHz processor. 200mbps only for L3 > forwarding, add other features to it and it'll drop considerably. > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> 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 > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LinuxUsers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > > > > -- > > Peter Manis > > (678) 269-7979 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
