>My question is what are the general hardware requirements for routing >to about 20 subnets (class c), traffic shaping for about 50 fiber >customers (TC QDISC), 2 T1s (straight into the Linux router) and about >35MB of traffic out to the next ISP? We are planning to implement BGP >sometime in the near future. >From my experience router load is mostly dependant on pps (packet per second). I was doing statefull 550k pps on Athlon64 X2 5200 cpu usage was ~50% per core. I'm doing stateless > 1m pps on Quad-core Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz, peak cpu usage is less then 25% per core both configs used e1000 nics, 1GB Ram both boxes were running BGP >I have been searching everywhere for some kind of guidelines, but I see >none. If anyone could give me a round about answer that would point me >in the right direction I would be obliged. Use irqbalance of smp affinity to distribute irqs between cores. Make your router stateless or optimeze netfilter settings related to conntrack (more memory, bigger hashtables ect) >2.0GHz Dual-Core Xeon, 4GB 667MGz RAM, 2x1Gbit Network Interfaces. Quite a lot of ram for statefull firewall + BGP (1GB would probably suffice). As for CPU diagnose your network and compare your pps with the numbers and platforms I specified. cheers, Marek Kierdelewicz KoBa ISP _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
