Operating system required to be either Linux (Kernel 2.6 mininum) or Solaris 10
Minimum of 2 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Extendability to up to 6 total Gigabit Ethernet interfaces minimum
BalanceNG benchmark (single instance) with a minimum of 50000 packets/sec (75700000 Bytes/sec) between all possible pairs of interfaces in both directions (including interface extensions)
BalanceNG benchmark with two instances at the same time over two different interface pairs with a minimum of 50000 packets/sec (75700000 Bytes/sec) on both instances
Minimum of 1024MB ECC memory
Utility “wget” must be installed (Debian package “wget”)
The “mon” monitoring daemon package must be installed (Debian package “mon”)
The Debian package “libnet-dns-perl” may be installed for mon DNS monitoring
The Net-SNMP daemon (Debian package “snmpd”) needs to be present and the BalanceNG MIB must be setup for instance 0
BalanceNG instance 0 must be automatically startable on boot
Syslog logfile rotation and deletion must be present and active
Additional requirements for Linux based systems:
Utility “ethtool” must be installed (Debian package “ethtool”)
/etc/sysctl.conf must have “arp_ignore” set to 1 for and “arp_announce” set to 2 for “all” and all present ethernet interfaces
Module “8021q” must be be present/available
The “vconfig” tool must be installed/available (Debian package “vlan”).