"chris" == chris <chris@ghostbusters.co.uk> writes:
chris> All the responses have been really helpful. Thanks to everyone chris> for being friendly and for taking the time to answer in detail. chris> I've asked a hardware provider to quote for a couple of x86 chris> boxes and I'll look for suitable Intel NICs too. chris> Jim: We're a very small ISP and have a full mix of packet sizes chris> on the network but the vast majority is outbound on port 80 so chris> hopefully that'll help. chris> Any more input will of course be considered. I may post the NIC chris> models for approval if I'm scratching my head again :) It's also worth saying that you should consider using FreeBSD --- which uses an r-tree for routes (constant time lookup) and is not flow-based. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================