10G-capable customer router recommendations?

Mon Apr 18 13:39:10 UTC 2016

With a Chelsio T5 you might get some decent pure routing / NAT performance
with the right card mod, but as soon as it goes into firewall/ACL/QoS etc,
performance will tank drastically.
On Apr 18, 2016 7:49 AM, "Micah Croff" <micahcroff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>