10G-capable customer router recommendations?

Micah Croff micahcroff at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 20:13:39 UTC 2016


I haven't tried to do 10Gb with it but pfSense isn't a horrible option.
I've done 1G with left over computer parts and for the most part it works
well.

https://www.pfsense.org/

For "free" software it is pretty feature rich.

Micah

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:18 PM, David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog at ddv.com>
wrote:

> Hello masters of the Internet,
>
> I was recently asked to set up networking at a VIP's home where he has
> Comcast "Gigabit Pro" service, which is delivered on a 10G-SR MM port on a
> Comcast-supplied Juniper ACX-2100 router.
>
> Which customer router would you suggest for such a setup? It needs to do
> IPv4 NAT, DHCP, IPv4+IPv6 routing and have a decent L4 firewall (that also
> supports IPv6).
>
> The customer pays for "2Gb" service (Comcast caps this at 2G+10% = 2.2Gbps)
> and would like to get what he pays for (*cough*) by having the ability to
> stream two 1Gbps streams (or at least achieve > 1.0Gbps).
>
> I'm tempted to get another ACX-2100 and do a 4x1Gb LACP port-channel to the
> customer switch, or replace the AV-integrator-installed Cisco SG300-52P
> (Cisco switch with e.g. an EX-3300 with 10Gb uplinks).
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
> -Dave
>



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