[103349] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Wed Mar 26 10:42:50 2008
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:31:30 -0400
To: <michael.dillon@bt.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B00237D6A2@E03MVC4-UKBR.doma
in1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 09:59 AM 3/26/2008, you wrote:
> > Is there a multiport card out there on to which some of the
> > forwarding responsibilities can be offloaded? Perhaps the
> > CPU doesn't need to see every packet that arrives on the machine.
>
>Am I the only person who has heard of Google?
>
>It didn't take me long to find this wiki page
>http://www.bro-ids.org/wiki/index.php/ClusterFrontends
>for an Opensource Intrusion Detection System that lists
>various 10G cards for Linux and a couple of FPGA cards
>so that you can roll your own ASICs. Anyway, this one
>http://www.lewiz.com/talon3220.html
>has two ports and claims to reach 8.8 Gbps with 1500 byte
>packets.
>
>People rolling their own router are not the only ones who
>want to do 10G on Linux.
Anyone who wants to roll your own more advanced apps on Linux without
reinventing the wheel may want to check out my friend's company:
http://www.bivio.net/products/bivio7000.htm
Even with their specialized hardware platform, bus, and extensive
tuning, they only get 10Gb/s throughput on the dual or quad 10G
modules. However you can do 100,000 line ACLs at that speed. It is
built for a different application than core routing. However, an XMR
or Sup720 will still be a lot cheaper and give better performance.
-Robert
Tellurian Networks - Global Hosting Solutions Since 1995
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