The running estimate is about 3 cores per 10GIf to maintain Line-Rate forwarding. The Enterprise version of Vyatte runs around 1.5-2 cores per 10Gif (Depends on how the forwarding plane is treating traffic, if you're remarking or heavy firewall rules the interrupt forwarding cost starts to impede.
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Max Tulyev Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 1:24 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Low Cost 10G Router Last config I touched: 2xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz, 12 Gbit summary, <5% each core load. On 19.05.15 21:06, Piotr Iwanejko wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Max Tulyev <max...@netassist.ua> w dniu 19 maj 2015, > o godz. 19:58: >> We are using softrouters based on Supermicro chassis, E5v3 cpu, >> Linux/BIRD and Intel 10G NICs. And VERY happy. > > Out of curiosity, how much traffic you pass over those softrouters? > > Piotr >
