[163103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben)
Sun May 19 19:32:44 2013
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:32:31 +1200
From: Ben <ben@meh.net.nz>
To: Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZaMup2nx-K3Sc6d3FZNHB7xSTPONgOHEggLJYVtDkvEPg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote:
> > But really you should get some newerish hardware with on-cpu PCIe and
> > memory controllers (and preferably QPI). That architectural jump really
> > upped the networking throughput of commodity hardware, probably by
> > orders of magnitude (people were doing 40Gbps routing using standard
> > Linux 5 years ago).
> Any ideas of the setup??? Maybe as far as naming some chipset, interface?
> And xserver that is the best candidate. Will google.. :)
Base model e5 CPU is generally considered adequate, and has direct link between
cache and PCI bypassing memory.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/io/data-direct-i-o-faq.html
Motherboard is likely to have i350 chipset for ethernet.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-controllers/ethernet-i350-server-adapter-brief.html
Ben.
