Hi there,
I'm a newcomer who's been learning and using networking equipment on the go for 2 years.
Networking can be quite fun on the go, but now I face a decision that I do not want to get wrong. To buy or not to buy an expensive 1036-12G-4S (possibly EM for 16GB Memory)
We run a Dedicated Fiber line from Vibe Communications (200/200) that is not being saturated for uplink (max ~14Mbps) and saturated downlink when updating games.
We currently have a CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD that I suspect is the root cause of lag for our gameserver clients.
Reason being is:
- The CPU averages around 70-90% during peak hours and I had to turn off firewall rules/close nat ports in an attempt to reduce cpu.
- All external clients experience lag at the same time
- Local side MTR ping to google.com shows spikes maxing 148ms from router, avg is 0ms, 0.000018% loss
I'm not sure of a definitive test I could do to work this out. The protocol is UDP, External Client->NAT->Local Gameserver
Requirements:
- Bandwidth Throttling for Local Client Uploads/Downloads only when required
- +10 Firewall rules
- +40 NAT rules for port forwarding
- 2 DHCP servers
- 1 External Client IPSEC to local network
- SFP Cage
- At least 1million pps performance
- 120 Max local connections
- ~300 external clients for servers
I would appreciate it if I could get some help deciding, attached is the network diagram. Thank you very much!