[leaf-user] hardware requirements bering router 100 mbit+
hello I have been using bering for adsl /wireless routing a long time, and it's as stable as a rock. But i am now going to setup a DMZ for services. this will be on a 100 mbit switched network and it might become a 1000 mbit switched network in a year or so. what i am wondering is. 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. btw: can bering support ospf protocol ? mvh Ronny Aasen --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] hardware requirements bering router 100 mbit+
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. -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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
Re: [leaf-user] hardware requirements bering router 100 mbit+
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
