> Lars Hansson wrote: > I'm in the process of building a couple > of FastEthernet routers based on OpenBSD that will handle > quite the high number of packets/second, somewhere in the > range 20-30k pps. Currently I'm looking at a couple of > different rack systems based on Intel mobo's > (D865 GBHZ and SR1325TP1). The D board has fxp fastethernet > and the SR has 1 fxp and > 1 em. My main concern however are with the main CPU's. The > D865 can use Celeron, Celeron D or P4 while the SR is p4 > only. Are the Celeron's, with their lack of L2 cache, enough? > Naturally the p4 is better but there's a significant price > difference to take into account here. > Any advice or insight very much welcome. >
I push 100-150mbit/30-100kpps with supermicro boxes with their P4SCi motherboard. It runs at 30-30% interrupt. It has two em interfaces on the motherboard and supermicro has cute 1u rack mountable boxes that is really short. And you get bios over the serialport. I use these as border routers running openbgpd and shortly openospfd. Works great. //Philip .
