[140031] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wire-rate Packet Capture on 10gbE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Apr 29 11:19:58 2011
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:18:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4DBACE9B.6080204@csuohio.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Michael Holstein wrote:
> Those two (thanks to Luca) can get you most of the way there, but to
> really hit the target you need dedicated kit like Endace (and a few
> others) make. They basically do what was represented in the CCC slides
> somebody else posted (FPGA with own logic), but on a PCIe card.
>
> Once you've got the ethernet -> interface problem addressed, you need to
> examine bottlenecks in interface->bus and particularly bus->disk.
One good open source solution on the disk side is Gluster with 10 gig
infiniband on the back end. Gluster allows you to build a distributed
storage over many servers. You can find 10 gig infiniband cards on ebay
for around $50 and a good 24 port topspin/cisco switch will cost you about
$1K.
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Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
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http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com
