Linux router network cards

Marinos Dimolianis dimolianis.marinos at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 15:54:28 UTC 2020


Hi micah,

I think this was shared in the past and may be useful with regards to 
what you expect in terms of performance: 
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/04/30/how-to-build-an-xdp-based-bgp-peering-router/ 
.

BR,

Marinos

On 21-Oct-20 6:37 AM, micah anderson wrote:
> I'm looking around for networking cards to build a linux based
> router. It needs to be able to do XDP, multiqueues, have good in-kernel
> driver support and be able to handle 10Gbe with good offloading for
> dealing with high packets per second.
>
> What features should I be looking for to really optimize things for a
> three transit setup, with full tables.
>
> Something like the Intel XL710-QDA2 card maybe?
>


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