K K [kk...@outlook.com] wrote: > I thought Intel, but I speak out of impressions, not backed by any facts. >
David Gwynne who is working on the Myricom driver recommends the intel card if that helps > What is the take of OpenBSD developers on this? > Are they any plans? > There's a lot of work going into multi-threading the stack right now. If you read www.openbsd.org/papers/ and undeadly.org you can keep up with some of the documented progress. I don't think anyone is using OpenBSD at 10Mpps on a box today, or if they are, that's the upper limit in a configuration without pf. I'd say that 10Mpps - 40Mpps is a bit past the "typical small ISP". > Many options seems available, but I have no idea how they could be > integrated in OpenBSD. I now clearly nothing of proper software > development. > > - DPDK (now BSD licensed) > - NETMAP/FW > The general consensus goes against these types of tools at the moment. I think people want to get the network stack right, first, before making it hot-pluggable... Chris
