>On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:08:11 +0000, Chris Taylor <chris at x dash bb dot org> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm wondering if someone can satisfy my curiosity here...
>>
>>1. If you were an ISP and you wanted a router to aggregate several
>>hundred user's DSL connections together, would it be possible to use
>>m0n0wall/BSD - with appropriately fast hardware and good GBit NICs - to
>>act as a traffic shaper?
>
>Yes your could.  Attention would need to be paid to hardware and software
>related uptime issues.
>
>>2. Does anyone actually do this? Not m0n0wall necessarily, but using BSD
>>for this kind of thing.
>
>Many startup ISPs use BSD for just this sort of thing.  I have also seen ISPs
>that used Sun OS for similar functions.

Hm, i've seen the processor load on my soekris 4521 with and without polling.
Without polling it's around 75 to 80%.
With polling 2%.
So, with gigabitcards is it wise to use polling?
I haven't had a change to test monowall on another machine with gigabit cards.
Anybody any experience with monowall and gigabit ethernet cards.
And with and without polling?
Mvgr,
Anson
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