Re: 10GE router resource

Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy
<patrickchegg.com> wrote:
>> Very interesting study I had not seen, and a
bummer. That really puts a
>> cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load
balancers/firewalls/gateways.
>> Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
> 
> I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose
for a PIX.
> 
Curious if you or others have tried Solaris 10 or
OpenSolaris, they 
claim that they are approaching wire speed 10G with the
right card 
(possibly their own, which is about $995 list).

--Patrick

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> Aaron Glenn wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy
<patrickchegg.com> 
> >wrote:
> >>Very interesting study I had not seen, and a
bummer. That really puts a
> >>cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load
balancers/firewalls/gateways.
> >>Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
> >
> >I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the
nose for a PIX.
> >
> Curious if you or others have tried Solaris 10 or
OpenSolaris, they 
> claim that they are approaching wire speed 10G with the
right card 
> (possibly their own, which is about $995 list).

FreeBSD is doing wirespeed 10GE.

Oh wait, do you mean forwarding, or just TCP? 



Adrian