On 10/15/20 5:52 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-10-14, Rafael Possamai <raf...@thinkpad.io> wrote: >>> I'm supporting a small business who needs more bandwidth due to the >>> work-from-home >situation. They've asked me to help them do the upgrade to >>> 10Gbe. I'd preferto keep them on an >OpenBSD router, since I love how >>> liuttle maintenance it needs, but I can't find any accounts of >someone >>> actually managing to get close to line speed above 1 Gbe. >>> >>> I don't want to just buy expensive hardware and hope that it works. Has >>> anyone here been able >to get close to 10 Gb/s networking with OpenBSD? I >>> don't need to be able to have more than a >few pf-rules. >> >> There is a talk on YouTube about using a few OpenBSD boxes with 10gb, maybe >> this helps somewhat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veqKM4bHesM > > 10Gb ports work fine, passing full 10Gb of traffic on those ports not so > much, and we're nowhere near passing 10Gb of small size packets. (the > limit is more to do with packets per second than speed). > > "do the upgrade to 10GbE" isn't specific enough as to what's needed to be > able to give much usrful advice. > > > Is there anything non technical that users can help with? I know donating hardware is one but I don't know if thats what is needed in this case?
Aisha
