On 11/3/05, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> My one question is dealing with bandwidth.  We have 10 Mbit
> full-duplex internet service, but we rarely hit even half of that.
> Average load is about 1 Mbit, spiking a few times a day up to 5 Mbit.
> I'm proposing replacing the cisco router w/ a Soekris net4801 with the
> lan1641 addon card.  Do you think this combination would have any
> issues handling the load?  At this point, we'd only be using four
> interfaces (WAN, LAN, DMZ, and wireless).
>

depends on how much you want to route between LAN, DMZ, and wireless. 
10 Mb of Internet bandwidth isn't an issue at all, but if you want
that plus ~100 Mb between LAN and DMZ, and ~30 Mb between wireless and
LAN, then no, a 4801 is not sufficient.

You can get a maximum of about 45 Mb thorugh a 4801.  take off 5 Mb
for Internet, and you have ~40 Mb of capacity between the LAN,
wireless, and DMZ interfaces.

granted this will vary some depending on environment, but that should
be a pretty accurate estimate.

-Chris