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10GbE?
Mar 19, 2019 18:13:29 GMT
Post by lpsantil on Mar 19, 2019 18:13:29 GMT
I see that in FreeBSD 8.4 there is support for some 10GbE NICs. What would I need on the PC side for SmallWall to do 10GbE? CPU? RAM? NIC vendor preference?
Thanks in advance.
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10GbE?
Mar 20, 2019 2:19:28 GMT
Post by Lee Sharp on Mar 20, 2019 2:19:28 GMT
Support for the nic is just there. Throughput is based on a lot of factors. Buss speed, CPU, are you doing encryption... But on just about anything modern, you should get sustained 600 meg or so unless you are doing some strong encryption.
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10GbE?
Mar 20, 2019 2:20:19 GMT
Post by Lee Sharp on Mar 20, 2019 2:20:19 GMT
And I forgot. For nic vendor... Intel. Always Intel. Many problems with vlans, jumbo frames, or just heavy loading just go away if you use Intel.
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10GbE?
Mar 21, 2019 5:42:56 GMT
Post by lpsantil on Mar 21, 2019 5:42:56 GMT
And I forgot. For nic vendor... Intel. Always Intel. Many problems with vlans, jumbo frames, or just heavy loading just go away if you use Intel. Would an Intel Atom N280 have enough horsepower to perform reasonably well when paired with an Intel 10GbE NIC? I have a handful of HP Thin Clients (silent!) with x16 PCIe at my disposal. Also have Pentium Dual Core boxes, a couple of old Dell PowerEdge 2850s if the Thin clients aren't enough. Thanks again for your previous response. |
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10GbE?
Mar 21, 2019 10:55:28 GMT
Post by Lee Sharp on Mar 21, 2019 10:55:28 GMT
I am not sure. It should get well over a gig as the multi core Atoms have good performance. But I have not tested one. I did test and old Core i5 first gen and got 3-4 gig sustained out of it.
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10GbE?
Mar 21, 2019 12:51:59 GMT
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Post by lpsantil on Mar 21, 2019 12:51:59 GMT
I am not sure. It should get well over a gig as the multi core Atoms have good performance. But I have not tested one. I did test and old Core i5 first gen and got 3-4 gig sustained out of it. Thanks. That’s a good reference point. |
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Post by lpsantil on Mar 21, 2019 12:53:09 GMT
I am not sure. It should get well over a gig as the multi core Atoms have good performance. But I have not tested one. I did test and old Core i5 first gen and got 3-4 gig sustained out of it. Thanks. That’s a good reference point. Btw, I’ll be buying some nics, a switch, and cables to test this out. |
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10GbE?
Mar 21, 2019 21:30:57 GMT
Post by Lee Sharp on Mar 21, 2019 21:30:57 GMT
Also be aware that the bottleneck could be your testing machines. Very few desktops will push 10 gig...  |
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Post by lpsantil on Mar 21, 2019 23:59:34 GMT
Also be aware that the bottleneck could be your testing machines. Very few desktops will push 10 gig... This is for a homelab. I have a few 16x48 Dell R610s, a 32x96 HP z620 and a 32x128 HP z820. Planning on doing some work with Red Hat Virtualization and OpenShift, maybe a little Gluster or Ceph. |
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