[LinuxUsers] Researching Vyatta for routing

[Jeff Lasman]

On Friday 06 March 2009 08:04 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote:

> The AMD Geode LX800 isn't enough for this task? The Alix 2c3 boards
> can often be found running pfSense and they can handle a lot...
> Besides, it's a small board that takes way less space than 1U, it's
> basically a small firewall box, fanless.

Routing is routing, but throughput and exactly what kind of routing you 
want to do are the issues.

For example, our routers run on 1.6 Ghz P4 processors, but all they do 
is create subnets and route to one upstream which routes to the 'net at 
large.  We run a bare CentOS5 distribution, but our next one will 
probably be DSL (Damn Small Linux) because all we really use is 
iptables and an editor to edit the startup script that controls it.

Up to 40 servers, 512 routable IP#s on the lan side, and  10 mbps 
average throughput, over 90% outbound, on the wan side, without any 
problems.

Jeff
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