> Hi! Hi > reason of hardware upgrade is growing up number of users, also we are > planning to increase upstream link from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. If you want to move around 1Gbit/s you need PCI-X or PCI-E network interfaces (PCI bus would be a bottleneck). > 1) Server based router (with dual core Xeon CPU) I've been using for some time now router with 2xsingle-core Xeon CPU for servicing 2k+ users. It works well. > 2) Desktop based router (with newest Intel Core 2 Duo CPU) Did't have a pleasure. I'd like to hear some opinions on that one too. > 3) what about AMD (I have no personal experience with them)? I'm trying to use unorthodox hardware setup for fast router: Dual core AMD64 desktop motherboard with 2xPCIe x16 slots (SLI capable motherboard) two PCIe x4 intel E1000 Server network adapters Preliminary tests look promising. Network adapters mentioned above should in theory do better then previous PCI-X network adapters. > > As I know, 64-bit architecture in router specific tasks doesn’t > give any performance boost? Maybe there are some other nuances that I > need to know (kernel hacking, hardware hints)? I think 64-bit architectures can do much better then 32-bit ones... at least on 64-bit kernel. > > I’m going to use standard Intel E1000 NIC for 1 Gbit/s speed > line, is it a good choice? Best choice as far as I know. Anyone would sugest something else? Regards, -- Marek Kierdelewicz Kierownik Dzia?u Systemów Sieciowych, KoBa Manager of Network Systems Department, KoBa tel. (85) 7406466; fax. (85) 7406467 e-mail: admin@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
