[188830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Micah Croff)
Mon Apr 18 08:46:41 2016
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From: Micah Croff <micahcroff@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:13:39 -0700
To: David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog@ddv.com>
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I haven't tried to do 10Gb with it but pfSense isn't a horrible option.
I've done 1G with left over computer parts and for the most part it works
well.
https://www.pfsense.org/
For "free" software it is pretty feature rich.
Micah
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:18 PM, David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog@ddv.com>
wrote:
> Hello masters of the Internet,
>
> I was recently asked to set up networking at a VIP's home where he has
> Comcast "Gigabit Pro" service, which is delivered on a 10G-SR MM port on a
> Comcast-supplied Juniper ACX-2100 router.
>
> Which customer router would you suggest for such a setup? It needs to do
> IPv4 NAT, DHCP, IPv4+IPv6 routing and have a decent L4 firewall (that also
> supports IPv6).
>
> The customer pays for "2Gb" service (Comcast caps this at 2G+10% = 2.2Gbps)
> and would like to get what he pays for (*cough*) by having the ability to
> stream two 1Gbps streams (or at least achieve > 1.0Gbps).
>
> I'm tempted to get another ACX-2100 and do a 4x1Gb LACP port-channel to the
> customer switch, or replace the AV-integrator-installed Cisco SG300-52P
> (Cisco switch with e.g. an EX-3300 with 10Gb uplinks).
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
> -Dave
>
