Chelsio cards are probably what you are looking for. https://www.chelsio.com/terminator-6-asic/
It's closer to an asic than a traditional nic as the router/firewall rules are pushed directly into the hardware. I don't know how good they are with linux and they seem to be compatible. https://www.chelsio.com/linux/ You will need to mess around a bit and fiddle here and there. If you don't mind using FreeBSD instead of linux, you could achieve a smoother and more integrated experience. Jean -----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest...@nanog.org> On Behalf Of micah anderson Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:31 PM To: Philip Loenneker <philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au>; NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: RE: Linux router network cards Thanks for the reply. Philip Loenneker <philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> writes: > Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle > DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between > hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some >From what I can tell, SR-IOV/PVRDMA aren't really useful for me in building a router that wont be doing any virtualization. If the card can do DPDK, can it do XDP? > The slidedeck for the presentation is here: > https://www.ausnog.net/sites/default/files/ausnog-2019/presentations/1 > .9_Rhod_Brown_AusNOG2019.pdf > > It's heavily targeting virtualised workloads but some of the feature sets apply to bare-metal uses too. Yeah, this wont be a virtualized environment, just a router passing packets, dropping them, handling bgp and collecting flows. -- micah
