[plug] plug Digest, Vol 127, Issue 9

[Paul Del]

I nearly forgot, Thanks Leon I will check out Juniper switches

Freebsd would be good, Id be happy using that on a sw

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:00 PM, <plug-request at plug.org.au> wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:24:28 +0800
> From: Leon Wright <techman83 at gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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> > Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.
> > pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or
> > more.  They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based systems
> > but its still not cheap/simple.  pfsense has a routing and not switching
> > focus.
> >
> > You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only
> > seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything
> > different so it may be a technical limitation?
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> > BillK
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> You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and the
> ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.
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> Leon
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> From: Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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> On 30/12/14 22:24, Leon Wright wrote:
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> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au
> > <mailto:billk at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
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> >     Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.
> >     pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or
> >     more.  They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based
> systems
> >     but its still not cheap/simple.  pfsense has a routing and not
> switching
> >     focus.
> >
> >     You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only
> >     seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything
> >     different so it may be a technical limitation?
> >
> >     BillK
> >
> >
> > You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and
> > the ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.
> >
> > Leon
> >
>
> Hmmm - thats something to look into.  As for my comment on limited PCIe
> ports above - a bit of googling shows there are actually quite a few
> multiple PCIe boards out there now.
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> BillK
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