Maybe this will help. I stole this snip from an email on the zebra mailing
list.
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this box is a PIII 733Mhz with 256M ram.
Detected 731.483 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1458.17 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255024k/262080k available (1286k kernel code, 6668k reserved, 458k
data, 312k init, 0k highmem)
Interfaces in use are as follows:
2 - Fore/Marconi LE155 OC3 ATM NICs
2 - NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet NICs
1 - Intel Ethernet Pro 100 Fast Ethernet NIC
The box is running the 2.4.x kernel
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The owner of the above box has maintained in the past that he has not seen
any throughput problems.
hope this help,
Eric
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles
Steinkuehler
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Leaf Speed and workload
For Charles S. Could you please tell me (if you know) the cpu's cache
size and the amount of memory in the Athlon machine.
Um...which athlon machine? All my LEAF systems are currently running on
pretty dated Pentium-1 class systems.
For everyone Would a dual cpu system (AMD or Intel) increase the
usability of a firewall/router box?
Probably, although you'll need to migrate to a system based on the 2.4
kernel to see much improvement in networking performance. Most of the
networking code in 2.2 kernels isn't multi-processor aware/capable.
How about when running Intruder detection or IPsec? Is it feasible to
use a lrp box as a border gateway router, either internal or external?
It's quite feasible to use LRP/LEAF boxes as a border gateway
router...that's how most LEAF boxes are used. For use as an internal
router, you'll have to decide if the performance is high enough for your
needs. You'll need fast hardware to route multiple 100MBit ethernet
segments at full speed, and I'm not sure you could get wire-speed Giga-bit
ethernet even with fast hardware...at the least, you'll want fast/wide PCI,
and preferrably multiple fast/wide PCI or PCI-X busses, if you're really
trying to route at Giga-bit speeds.
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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