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Re: Residential CPE suggestions
From: Steven Miano <mianosm () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:02:02 -0400
You could also go Supermicro, and build out a 1U with SFP/Copper connections and put VyOS/vyatta as a linux based routing platform.... ....going that way you'll be strictly CPU/software bound though (Intel wrote up this interesting report: http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/Documentatie_SM/Intel_Microprocessor_Systems/Intel_ProcessorNew/Intel%20White%20Paper/Integrating%20Services%20at%20the%20Edge%20for%20Intel%20Xeon%205500.pdfwhich is no longer available on their site seemingly). Totally built out you'd be looking at high triple digits (the SFP PCIe card and chassis/motherboard would be your biggest hits). On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix () gmail com>wrote:
It also has support for some type of ipv4 and ipv6 offload. On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:I was also going to recommend the EdgeRouter Pro as it has dual SFP = ports and the Vyatta/Linux stuff works quite well. I suspect you will be very surprised with the quality experience. If = you've not used Vyatta, it's very JunOS-like.Does anyone have any practical experience with the EdgeRouter with a largish number of prefixes? http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf The "2 million+ packets per second" leads me to believe that this is merely a highly optimized software based router, but under "Hardware Specs" it specifically says "hardware acceleration for packet processing". I have no idea what's being accelerated since the "layer 3 forwarding performance" specs for the FR-8 are 2Mpps (an 800MHz CPU) and the FRPro-8 are 2.4Mpps (1GHz) which suggests software lookup. Do these things suffer if you load them down with a full table? Or a handful of firewall rules? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI -http://www.sol.net"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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Current thread:
- Residential CPE suggestions Deepak Jain (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Gary Buhrmaster (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Bryan Seitz (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Cryptographrix (May 05)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Joe Greco (May 06)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions bedard.phil (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Joe Greco (May 07)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Cryptographrix (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Steven Miano (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Gary Buhrmaster (May 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Scott Weeks (May 06)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jimmy Hess (May 06)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions Nolan Rollo (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jared Mauch (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Warren Bailey (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Randy Carpenter (May 08)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Aled Morris (May 09)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Aled Morris (May 09)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions Deepak Jain (May 12)
- RE: Residential CPE suggestions Deepak Jain (May 13)
- Re: Residential CPE suggestions Jimmy Hess (May 06)