[NANOG] 10GE router resource

Mon May 19 06:03:52 UTC 2008

* Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn at gmail.com> [2008-03-26 03:14]:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy <patrick at chegg.com> wrote:
> > Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a
> > cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways.
> > Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
> 
> I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose for a PIX.
> 
> > I also had to switch to OpenBSD as there was a fatal crash with the bridge
> > device in FreeBSD when used with my paticular OpenVPN/CARP/pf combination.
> >
> > AFAIK pf/forwarding only takes place on one core and wouldn't take advantage
> > of the other 3 cores, correct?
> 
> Correct. There has been some great speed and efficiency improvements
> in pf and other networking parts of OpenBSD; though from anecdotal
> evidence, 10GbE is not ready for 'primetime' (for certain definitions
> of 'primetime').
> 
> actually I'll just skip making an ass out of myself and hope henning@
> chimes in, since I believe he reads NANOG as well.

occasionally.

as with all other OSes constructed benchmarks would show 10GE to work at 
wirespeed with reasonable hardware. I would not use it (yet) if I truly 
need 10 GBit/s forwarding rate, and that goes for any OS.

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