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Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations
From: Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:33:16 +0400
Hello! Looks like somebody want to build Linux soft router!) Nice idea for routing 10-30 GBps. I route about 5+ Gbps in Xeon E5-2620v2 with 4 10GE cards Intel 82599 and Debian Wheezy 3.2 (but it's really terrible kernel, everyone should use modern kernels since 3.16 because "buggy linux route cache"). My current processor load on server is about: 15%, thus I can route about 15 GE on my Linux server. Surely, you should deploy backup server too if master server fails. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:53 AM, micah anderson <micah () riseup net> wrote:
Hi, I know that specially programmed ASICs on dedicated hardware like Cisco, Juniper, etc. are going to always outperform a general purpose server running gnu/linux, *bsd... but I find the idea of trying to use proprietary, NSA-backdoored devices difficult to accept, especially when I don't have the budget for it. I've noticed that even with a relatively modern system (supermicro with a 4 core 1265LV2 CPU, with a 9MB cache, Intel E1G44HTBLK Server adapters, and 16gig of ram, you still tend to get high percentage of time working on softirqs on all the CPUs when pps reaches somewhere around 60-70k, and the traffic approaching 600-900mbit/sec (during a DDoS, such hardware cannot typically cope). It seems like finding hardware more optimized for very high packet per second counts would be a good thing to do. I just have no idea what is out there that could meet these goals. I'm unsure if faster CPUs, or more CPUs is really the problem, or networking cards, or just plain old fashioned tuning. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome! micah
-- Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
Current thread:
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, (continued)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Mike Hammett (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Adair Winter (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Alexander Neilson (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Ken Chase (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Faisal Imtiaz (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations joel jaeggli (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Joe Holden (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations David bass (Jan 26)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Paul S. (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Pavel Odintsov (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Baldur Norddahl (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Phil Bedard (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Eduardo Schoedler (Jan 27)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Robert Bays (Jan 28)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Paul S. (Jan 28)
- Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations Robert Bays (Jan 28)