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RE: Residential CPE suggestions
From: <bedard.phil () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:08:17 -0400
It uses a Cavium Octeon processor which does have dedicated HW packet processing. A moderate number of prefixes won't slow it down doing vanilla forwarding, not sure about 2 million though... I believe they have recently optimized some of the FW stuff to take advantage of the HW as well. Layering services like FW, NAT, and tunneling definitely drops the packet rate significantly, but it is still capable of 100+Mbps at IMIX packet sizes. I think there are a couple of in depth tests out there. In my experience the ERL works really well for a $99 device. Phil -----Original Message----- From: "Joe Greco" <jgreco () ns sol net> Sent: 5/6/2014 7:39 AM To: "jared () puck nether net (Jared Mauch)" <jared () puck nether net (Jared Mauch)> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: Residential CPE suggestions
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.
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 Jimmy Hess (May 06)