[103333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Mar 26 00:04:06 2008
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:14:56 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Cc: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <47E9C824.6060400@zill.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> Aaron Glenn wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy <patrick@chegg.com>
> >wrote:
> >>Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a
> >>cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways.
> >>Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
> >
> >I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose for a PIX.
> >
> Curious if you or others have tried Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, they
> claim that they are approaching wire speed 10G with the right card
> (possibly their own, which is about $995 list).
FreeBSD is doing wirespeed 10GE.
Oh wait, do you mean forwarding, or just TCP? :)
Adrian
