One thing to note about Ubiquiti's EdgeMax products is that they are not Intel based. They use Cavium Octeon's (at least that's what my EdgeRouter Lite has in it).
Oliver ------------------------------------- Oliver Garraux Check out my blog: blog.garraux.net Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/olivergarraux On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote: > > 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. > > 10-15 years ago, we were seeing early Pentium 4 boxes capable of moving > 100Kpps+ on FreeBSD. See for example > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/ > > Luigi moved on to Netmap, which looks promising for this sort of > thing. > https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-final186.pdf > I was under the impression that some people have been using this for > 10G routing. > > Also I'll note that Ubiquiti has some remarkable low-power gear capable > of 1Mpps+. > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] > then I > won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail > spam(CNN) > With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many > apples. >
