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Re: High throughput bgp links using gentoo + stipped kernel
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 20:50:13 -0400
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Nick Khamis <symack () gmail com> wrote:
Hey Bill, thanks for your reply!!!! Yeah option 1...... I think we will do whatever it takes to avoid that route. I don't have a good reason for it, it's just preference. Option 2 is exactly what we are looking at.
Hi Nick, You might get enough of a bump from something like an HP DL380p gen8 to saturate your gig-e. I wouldn't bank on stably going any higher than that. And as someone else mentioned, definitely lose conntrack and stateful firewalling. If you need 'em, move 'em to interior boxes that aren't dealing with your main Internet pipe. If you're up for a challenge there are specialty NIC cards like the Endace DAG. They're usually used for packet capture but in principle they have the right kind of hardware fast path (e.g. TCAMs) built in to accomplish what you want to do. Heck of a challenge though. I haven't heard of anybody putting together a white-box fast path router before. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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