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    Which cpu is sufficient for a 100Mb/s symmetric link

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      PRES last edited by

      Anybody has experience with shaping a link like this, and is willing to share his is knowledge?

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        francisuk22 last edited by

        How many users on the network at the sometime?

        2.0.2-RELEASE (amd64) - Dell OptiPlex GX520 SFF @ Intel P4 HT 3.0GHz
        Cisco SR224 24-port Switch (4 PCs, 1 Wireless AP, 2 Consoles)

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          PRES last edited by

          around 1000 users,

          btw I taught that the amount off user didn't have that many impact as the amount off throughput.

          but annyway cheers  :P

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            francisuk22 last edited by

            Ahh.  :D

            My advise would be getting a quad core CPU if your doing about 1000 users at the sametime as traffic shaping would take some CPU

            Francis :)

            2.0.2-RELEASE (amd64) - Dell OptiPlex GX520 SFF @ Intel P4 HT 3.0GHz
            Cisco SR224 24-port Switch (4 PCs, 1 Wireless AP, 2 Consoles)

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              dreamslacker last edited by

              A quad core cpu isn't required.  Even an Atom will push that kind of bandwidth. The number of users doesn't matter so much as the throughput (in both bandwidth and PPS) when considering the CPU.  You may need more RAM (about 2GB will suffice) though.

              More importantly, what packages/ features do you intend to run?  Packages like Snort, Squid and HAVP will require more processing power and much more ram.

              If you need VPN on that link, then you should look into the newer Core i processors.

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                PRES last edited by

                Thanks for the reply,

                For now it will only handle traffic shaping.
                Little info about deployment,
                This deployment will be in a school and we want to use for every user a up and down queue. So the bandwidth is divided by the amount of user, and staff members will get more.

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                  Eleander last edited by

                  PRES,

                  I would reconsider userbased Up-down q's!
                  Departements will do fine.

                  And then again, it's the traffic type you gonna shape, not the user q!
                  Departements then again should be or VLAN'd and/or Subnetted (higher security) so you can wel…. if you have a network that large most of these things are in place!

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