[103326] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Mar 25 20:54:23 2008
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:02:03 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com>
Cc: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <443de7ad0803251446x479aa02cy9d778015677b1ab5@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chris Grundemann wrote:
> To Ann's question on resources; I have only used Linux routers with 1G
> ports but have surpassed 10G total throughput (up+ down) using various
> dual proc set ups, most often Intel Xeon in Dell servers. A gentlemen
> by the name of Martin Pels wrote a good paper on the subject early
> last year that can be found here:
> http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf. He hit a wall at
> 700K pps and was using two dual core Intel Xeon 64bit 2.33GHz CPUs and
> 2GB of RAM in a Dell PowerEdge 1950.
Mike Tancsa did some benchmarking in late 2006:
http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html
I think things are slightly faster now but not because of a massive
change in software architecture.
Adrian
