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Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:31:35 -0800
On 11/8/07, Carl Karsten <carl () personnelware com> wrote:
I do the networking in my house, and hang out with guys that do networking in small offices that have a few T1s. Now I am talking to people about a DS3 connection for 500 laptops*, and I am bing told "a p4 linux box with 2 nics doing NAT will not be able to handle the load." I am not really qualified to say one way or the other. I bet someone here is.
how about just looking at what a production MSSP would roll out for a similar situation.. a nokia ip530-class box (I think it's a ip580 these days) with Checkpoint as the 'firewall'... Certainly (poke fbsd fanboys) a fbsd box of similar config can perform as well, yes? :) I recall the ip530 being an intel P3-ish system (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nokia+ip530&btnG=Google+Search) I think we selected these at a past job because it could handle 2 quad FE cards and a DS3 card...
Current thread:
- cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Carl Karsten (Nov 08)
- RE: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Darden, Patrick S. (Nov 08)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Jeff Kell (Nov 08)
- RE: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs David Schwartz (Nov 08)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Deepak Jain (Nov 08)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Joe Greco (Nov 08)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Christopher Morrow (Nov 08)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Lamar Owen (Nov 09)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 09)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Adrian Chadd (Nov 09)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Joel Jaeggli (Nov 10)
- RE: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Frank Bulk (Nov 12)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Randy Bush (Nov 12)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Joel Jaeggli (Nov 12)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Carl Karsten (Nov 12)
- RE: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs] Frank Bulk (Nov 13)
- Re: large-scale wireless [was: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs] Elmar K. Bins (Nov 13)
- Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 09)
- RE: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs Darden, Patrick S. (Nov 08)