[109957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Gilbert)
Wed Dec 17 17:13:26 2008
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:13:06 -0500
To: Chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <c8a7026b0812170917m735afb53l4530dc998b674a9c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>>>>> "chris" == chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk> writes:
chris> All the responses have been really helpful. Thanks to everyone
chris> for being friendly and for taking the time to answer in detail.
chris> I've asked a hardware provider to quote for a couple of x86
chris> boxes and I'll look for suitable Intel NICs too.
chris> Jim: We're a very small ISP and have a full mix of packet sizes
chris> on the network but the vast majority is outbound on port 80 so
chris> hopefully that'll help.
chris> Any more input will of course be considered. I may post the NIC
chris> models for approval if I'm scratching my head again :)
It's also worth saying that you should consider using FreeBSD ---
which uses an r-tree for routes (constant time lookup) and is not
flow-based.
Dave.
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