Quoting James Peltier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
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James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are some statistics from an OpenBSD server that is a core router
at a business (multiple locations across Canada, they use HP switches
as well and have gigabit links between two facilities).It has been
running very well for years and has given them no problems (not even a
single support issue after the initial setup, so they did not even try
to put it on a server -class machine :). I can try to get the client's
permission and give you more details if it helps.
$ sysctl hw
hw.machine=i386
hw.model=Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class)
hw.ncpu=1
hw.byteorder=1234
hw.physmem=527998976
hw.usermem=527765504
hw.pagesize=4096
hw.disknames=wd0,cd0,fd0
hw.diskcount=3
hw.cpuspeed=2400
hw.setperf=100
$ uptime
3:37PM up 163 days, 9:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.08
$ netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts
Oerrs Colls
rl0 1500 <Link> xxxxxxxx 707720527 0 345907231
0 0
rl0 1500 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx 707720527 0 345907231
0 0
rl0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 707720527 0 345907231
0 0
dc0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3117848385 0 1780078966
0 0
dc0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3117848385 0 1780078966
0 0
dc0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3117848385 0 1780078966
0 0
fxp0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2225781599 0 3844993993
1 0
fxp0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2225781599 0 3844993993
1 0
fxp0 1500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2225781599 0 3844993993
1 0
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Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng.
ForeTell Technologies Limited
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
