Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hayes wrote: >> Has anyone here tried to use DragonFly BSD as a router where the box had >> more than 4 network interfaces? I'm wondering if too many network >> interfaces on one machine would have performance issues? > > What sort of hardware,
As yet unspecified hardware, which is why I am asking the list. :) I seem to remember some very old idea that more than 4 network interfaces on a PCI bus was a Bad Idea(tm). I know conventional wisdom suggests specifying an application and expected load, but in this particular case I don't really know exact numbers in advance, I can only determine that the load is on the scale of ~100 machines, and several gigE networks. > I've run six pci-bus 10/100 NICs as an ipfw(1) bridging router under > FreeBSD 4.8, 1 GHz Celeron, 512 MB PC133 SDRAM with acceptable performance. > Ergo I wouldn't expect DragonFly to take a back seat relative to any of > the other *BSD's - or Linuces. I'm not bridging, I'm actually routing...so that will take some of the load off the idea. The downside is I'm routing gigE and I don't want too much speed to be sacrificed. > Serious router/firewall kit is on a different 'Planet' (or Cisco, or ..) > and better served with an RTOS. Perhaps. I don't have any data to confirm or deny this, though it seems reasonable. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< Do you want to examine a socially conditioned individual who attributes what has been done to him as the work of a higher power? All you need to do is look at 9 out of 10 "dedicated" people.