Chat in my nerds irc channel about 10G routers paralleling this
14:21 <b> the Xeon D-1540 has 8 cores / 16 threads, 2GHz base clock with
2.6GHz turbo, and dual 10G nics on chip
14:21 <b> 45W TDP
14:31 <b> supposedly an asrock board is coming that can be 10Gbase-T or SFP+
14:58 <a> supermicro are shipping some SFP+ 10G E5 boards
15:00 <b> but the xeon E5 doesn't have the on die 10G nic
15:07 <a> X9DRW-7TPF+
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x9drw-7tpf_.cfm
Also: 1.4Mpps per 10G link doesnt seem like the minimum packetsize one wants for
handling DOS attacks, but I might be bad at math.
/kc
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:46:16PM -0500, Joe Greco said:
>> How cheap is cheap and what performance numbers are you looking for?
>>
>> About as cheap as you can get:
>>
>> For about $3,000 you can build a Supermicro OEM system with an 8-core Xeon
>> E5 V3 and 4-port 10G Intel SFP+ NIC with 8G of RAM running VyOS. The pro
>> is that BGP convergence time will be good (better than a 7200 VXR), and
>> number of tables likely won't be a concern since RAM is cheap. The con is
>> that you're not doing things in hardware, so you'll have higher latency,
>> and your PPS will be lower.
>
>What 8 core Xeon E5 v3 would that be? The 26xx's are hideously pricey,
>and for a router, you're probably better off with something like a
>Supermicro X10SRn fsvo "n" with a Xeon E5-1650v3. Board is typically
>around $300, 1650 is around $550, so total cost I'm guessing closer to
>$1500-$2000 that route.
>
>The edge you get there is the higher clock on the CPU. Only six cores
>and only 15M cache, but 3.5GHz. The E5-2643v3 is three times the cost
>for very similar performance specs. Costwise, E5 single socket is the
>way to go unless you *need* more.
>
>... JG
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