Not noise! On May 19, 2013 10:20 AM, "Nick Khamis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/19/13, Zachary Giles <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had two Dell R3xx 1U servers with Quad Gige Cards in them and a few > small > > BGP connections for a few year. They were running CentOS 5 + Quagga with > a > > bunch of stuff turned off. Worked extremely well. We also had really > small > > traffic 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's > not > > network, but it does demonstrate pushing data into daemon applications > and > > back down to the kernel at high rates. > > Certainly a kernel routing table with no iptables and a small Quagga > daemon > > in 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. > >
