From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:59:58 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] good hardware Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org I've searched the list archives and haven't found any information on this. I realize that many users are routing in a home or small office environment but I think there is also a place for "enterprise" routing. But knowing how to configure the software is only part of a low-latency router--you also need good hardware. Are there any thoughts on good configurations? NICs: I've seen several mentions of the Intel eepro NICs. Are they best? Processor: speeds probably don't matter too much (my Cisco 3640 router with 4 T1s has a 100Mhz processor, though it's RISC and has optimized IOS) but faster processors have faster FSB as well Memory: 128 MB probably enough to deal with 100Mb? HD: Obviously you want everything in memory, but if you're doing much logging you might get a solid-state disk. I've done a little comparison testing of prebuilt firewall routers with a few little DLink/Sonicwall/Netgear boxes vs. an Athlon running IPCop, but I'm sure someone has done better hardware tests than mine. I'm open to any info. If I get enough for a good summary perhaps it could be added to the HOWTO. Thanks. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/