Hello, My company recently upgraded our internet connection and I need to set up shaping. I was wondering , what are the CPU and RAM requirements for shaping 768/768 DSL line ? I have a few old P III''s (450 MHz, 256 RAM) and some VIA Eden (533 MHz, 512 RAM) boxes lying around. Which one would be most appropriate ? That box would be a shaping only box, and all internet traffic would go through it.
Igor Krneta wrote:> Hello, > My company recently upgraded our internet connection and I need to set > up shaping. I was wondering , what are the CPU and RAM requirements for > shaping 768/768 DSL line ?Not much. I help take care of a P1-200 with 96MB RAM that does firewalling, NAT, shaping, and load balancing for a T1 and a 6000/600 ADSL line. It never comes close to having to work hard.> I have a few old P III''s (450 MHz, 256 RAM) and some VIA Eden (533 MHz, > 512 RAM) boxes lying around. Which one would be most appropriate ?Use whichever one you expect to be stable -- you don''t want to have to deal with crashes. Otherwise, I would use the faster machine just because it''ll be quicker to set up and administrate. -Corey
Quoting Igor Krneta <warlord@trust-b.com>:> My company recently upgraded our internet connection and I need to > set up shaping. I was wondering , what are the CPU and RAM > requirements for shaping 768/768 DSL line ?It all depends on how complicated you want your shaping setup to be and how many clients you have to serve. For example, in my home network with 5 client machines (and something like 10 classes / 5 filters per client), the old PII machine with 128MB of RAM I was using for this task was 95% idle all of the time... If you have thousands of classes and just as many filters, it probably would be different, though.> I have a few old P III''s (450 MHz, 256 RAM) and some VIA Eden (533 > MHz, 512 RAM) boxes lying around. Which one would be most appropriate > ?I think it''s quite safe to say that in a normal setup any of these should be more than sufficient. HTH Andreas Klauer