Choosing CPU for router

[Jon Otterholm]

Den 2010-03-17 10.12, skrev "Gilles WAGNER" <gillesw at gmail.com>:

> 2010/3/17 Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org>
> 
> Matthias Gamsjager wrote:
>> 
>>>  Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will
>>> be involved?
>>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and
>>> motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho).
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Agreed.
>> 
>> The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this sort
>> of routing/ipfw task.  The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC RAM,
>> and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU available.
>> 
>> 
>> - Andrew
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> Hi,
> 
> That's what I would choose : 2 or more atom miniserver and pfsync. But I
> don't know how well it can work with ipfw.
> 
> Gilles
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This machine is going to act as access-router serving ~500 FTTH-customers.
About 500Mbit/s and 200kpps. The big issue is Dummynet, around 1000 pipes (2
pipes/customer).

I don't think an Atom-based machine can handle this, am I wrong?

//Jon