Pfsense maximum fiber output and traffic
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Take it easy everyone.
I'm about to build a big network. However, my investor does not want to spend money on expensive firewall companies. Can I use 2 x 4x 10GBE SFP+ Network cards and 1 x 4x Gigabit Ethernet with a powerful motherboard and processor?
So 8 10G fibers and 4 1G ethernet.Or should I buy a NETGATE 1537 and insert 4x 10GBE SFP+ cards? As a result, there will be a total of 6 10G fibers and 2 1G ethernets.
1 outbound fiber will exit from the device and enter the 24-port switch. From these 24 ports, it will go to 8-port switches as ethernet.
There will be 4 of these systems and each will work as a VLAN.
So I definitely need at least 4 10GBE fiber out.What do you think I should do?
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That's a lot of bandwidth. Are you sure a powerful motherboard can handle it? Those expensive firewalls will often have custom hardware to offload from the CPU.
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Potentially that's a lot of bandwidth at least. What actual bandwidth do you need to route/firewall?
No CPU(s) exist that will get you 80Gbps for example.
Steve
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so what's your advice? At least 4x 10G spf+ next to 4x 1G Ethernet is required. Our goal is to ensure that our internal network is not a bottleneck. If I give 100M network permission to users, how would the system react if 200 people over 4 Vlans?
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Really we need to know what bandwidth you're actually going to be routing/filtering.
I would assume you will not be passing (or trying to) 10Gbps between those VLANs if each client is limited to 100M. If it's all going to be WAN-LAN traffic what's the available WAN bandwidth?
Steve
