[109962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Thu Dec 18 06:42:03 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:41:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <c8a7026b0812180044q5d6a7ebfm9d11dbdbff6e849b@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Dear Chris,
> One final quick question on the NICs if I can. Following Mike's suggestion
> about specific Intel chipsets (82575 or 82576) it looks like it's much
> easier to source the chipsets mentioned by David (82571EB). If these NICs
> are embedded on the motherboard is it going to be of disadvantage in terms
> of performance ? I take the point of the interrupts being the key, kindly
> thrown into the mix by Eugeniu.
For a new system you should go with pci-e cards.
> A nice man called John mailed me off list and mentioned this off-the-shelf
> build. On that note does anyone have any experience of Lannerinc's
> appliances mentioned above by Ingo
I have posted thos off-list, for the list:
http://www.lannerinc.com/DM/FW-7550_DM.pdf
pros: cheap, cf-disk support, low power (~50W)
cons: only 1GB Ram (enough for 1million routes),
pci-connected intel 82541GI, 32bit, 33MHZ
acpi max-temp is set to low in bios and needs
an acpi-aml file to be loaded
http://www.axiomtek.de/uploads/na-820.pdf
pros: 7x pci-e
www.endian.com use them.
http://www.endian.com/en/products/hardware/macro-x2/
OS:
Freebsd:
pros: very stable, quagge runs very well, fastforwarding support,
simple traffic shaping, interrupt less polling supported
cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to
implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing
Linux:
pros: more than 1 route for each network possible,
interrupt less polling should be supported?
fastforwarding ?
cons: no multipath routing
Cpu's:
Single-core-cpus performs better at freebsd than multi-core ones
At freebsd-net mailinglist there is a very long thread about
freebsd-routers.
Kind regards,
Ingo Flaschberger
