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Re: Residential CPE suggestions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cryptographrix)
Tue May 6 08:47:54 2014

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From: Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:47:25 -0400
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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It also has support for some type of ipv4 and ipv6 offload.



On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:

> > 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
> --
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and]
> then I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail
> spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
> apples.
>

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