On Saturday 2012-09-01 00:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Friday 2012-08-31 21:38, Julien Vehent wrote:
>
>>At work, we're building a new office, and we are considering
>>building our own edge firewalls instead of giving bucket loads of
>>money to the big guys. We're a Linux shop, so it makes sense to
>>build those new firewall/vpn boxes using Linux. But we are
>>concerned about performances and complexity. I make a simple
>>diagram of what we want below. We would have a point to point WAN
>>connection between the two networks, and then an uplink on each
>>side.
>>
>>[...]
>>* What type of network cards will handle 1GBPS and 10GBPS
>>(eventually) ? Any recommendation on the hardware ?
>
>Those with multiqueue. Intel is known to have some offerings, check
>there (I don't have the chip numbers at hand).
The chip/card I was thinking of (lspci output):
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]:
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5716 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:163b] (rev 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02a5]
Product Name: Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet Controller
Read-only fields:
[PN] Part number: BCM95716C1
[V0] Vendor specific: 5.0.13
This card has 8 queues according to /proc/interrupts.
>> kernel/system to fit our needs. Some distros are more network oriented than
>> others, is there anything that would stand out for our setup ?
>
>openSUSE is the only known one to offer the complete Netfilter package
>spectrum.
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