Hi All, I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine serving a university network. The current Cisco setup is basically providing routing and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve switches with some basic firewall services. I'd like to look at replacing it with an OpenBSD based solution but I am unsure as to whether OpenBSD is up to the task.
Does anyone have any hard evidence that a high quality machine running OpenBSD would be sufficent to replace such a unit? Anything I may want to investigate further prior to pitching this to my manager. He's aware of the benefits to OpenBSD such as the multitude of features available in the stock system, but is a bit worried that it will not be able to keep up. We're only pushing about 50-60M during peak times and are only providing services over a gigabit link between buildings so I think it will be able to keep up. PPS and memory latency are the key issues to tackle I think. Any hints, direction, or "yeah, I've done it here.." style cases are greatly appreciated. --- James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
