Couple of things to let you know about:
Jim Hubbard wrote:
1. What sort of throughput, for instance, could LEAF-Bering theoretically
provide on a Pentium 100 system with edo ram and with 10/100 nics, cables,
and switch, assuming that all other systems connected have unlimited speed?
Check the archives; sometime in the last month or so someone ran some
throughput tests (or posted old test results from somewhere, not sure
which) that might give you an idea on this.
2. How does the throughput of a LEAF-Bering system running on hardware X
compare to Cisco switch X?
Different animals; LEAF does routing, firewalling, and DMZ. Switches -
even Cisco switches, aren't designed to do that. You're generally still
going to need a switch behind a LEAF box, unless you're going into the
realms of quad-port NICs and other specialized hardware. What a switch
will do is allow you to define virtual LANs and prevent unnecessary data
spewing all over your networks, as well as provide some rudimentary
filtering based on MAC and IP. A Cisco router is where all the
firewalling would be done, and on a price/performance ratio - or even on
a performance ratio - a $200 LEAF box will be way overpowered and blow
the doors off of most Cisco routers.
3. How does LEAF-Bering compare, overall, to a Cisco switch?
Same as above.
4. What hardware do you run LEAF-Bering on, and what sort of performance do
you get from it?
For me, P3-500, 64MB memory, floppy for configs plus CD boot. And I've
got WAY more horsepower than I need for the four systems (two
wireless-connected computers and two ethernet connected) hooked up to
it. I'm on 3Mbit down, 256k up cablemodem, and I routinely max my line
out for several hours at a clip without issue - I have actually seen
3.13 Mbit/sec out of it for about 3 minutes before it drops back down to
3.01 or so, which I tend to think was just a good minute on my
cablemodem. With 10Mbit 3Com NICs, I believe there's a practical limit
of around 5Mbit/sec, but very few people - even in the business world -
are going to be using 10Mbit NICs with a pipe bigger than 5 Mbit/sec for
their uplink.
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