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Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel
From: Phil Fagan <philfagan () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 11:34:59 -0600
Not noise! On May 19, 2013 10:20 AM, "Nick Khamis" <symack () gmail com> wrote:
On 5/19/13, Zachary Giles <zgiles () gmail com> wrote:I had two Dell R3xx 1U servers with Quad Gige Cards in them and a fewsmallBGP connections for a few year. They were running CentOS 5 + Quagga withabunch of stuff turned off. Worked extremely well. We also had reallysmalltraffic back then. Server hardware has become amazingly fast under-the-covers these days. It certainly still can't match an ASIC designed solution from Cisco etc, but it should be able to push several GB of traffic. In HPC storage applications, for example, we have multiple servers with Quad 40Gig and IB pushing ~40GB of traffic of fairly large blocks. It'snotnetwork, but it does demonstrate pushing data into daemon applicationsandback down to the kernel at high rates. Certainly a kernel routing table with no iptables and a small Quaggadaemonin the background can push similar. In other words, get new hardware and design it flow.What we are having a hard time with right now is finding that "perfect" setup without going the whitebox route. For example the x3250 M4 has one pci-e gen 3 x8 full length (great!), and one gen 2 x4 (Not so good...). The ideal in our case would be a newish xserver with two full length gen 3 x8 or even x16 in a nice 1u for factor humming along and being able to handle up to 64 GT/s of traffic, firewall and NAT rules included. Hope this is not considered noise to an old problem however, any help is greatly appreciated, and will keep everyone posted on the final numbers post upgrade. N.
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- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel, (continued)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Valdis . Kletnieks (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Matt Palmer (May 20)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Phil Fagan (May 20)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Justin M. Streiner (May 21)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel joel jaeggli (May 20)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Ben (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Nick Khamis (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Zachary Giles (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Nick Khamis (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Phil Fagan (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Andre Tomt (May 19)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Laurent GUERBY (May 20)
- Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel Laurent GUERBY (May 20)