[171558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Residential CPE suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Tue May 6 07:37:19 2014
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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: jared@puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 02:01:33 -0500 (CDT)
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> 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
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