You could also go Supermicro, and build out a 1U with SFP/Copper connections and put VyOS/vyatta as a linux based routing platform.... ....going that way you'll be strictly CPU/software bound though (Intel wrote up this interesting report: http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/Documentatie_SM/Intel_Microprocessor_System... is no longer available on their site seemingly). Totally built out you'd be looking at high triple digits (the SFP PCIe card and chassis/motherboard would be your biggest hits). On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com>wrote:
It also has support for some type of ipv4 and ipv6 offload.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
I was also going to recommend the EdgeRouter Pro as it has dual SFP = ports and the Vyatta/Linux stuff works quite well.
I suspect you will be very surprised with the quality experience. If = you've not used Vyatta, it's very JunOS-like.
Does anyone have any practical experience with the EdgeRouter with a largish number of prefixes?
http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf
The "2 million+ packets per second" leads me to believe that this is merely a highly optimized software based router, but under "Hardware Specs" it specifically says "hardware acceleration for packet processing".
I have no idea what's being accelerated since the "layer 3 forwarding performance" specs for the FR-8 are 2Mpps (an 800MHz CPU) and the FRPro-8 are 2.4Mpps (1GHz) which suggests software lookup.
Do these things suffer if you load them down with a full table? Or a handful of firewall rules?
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