hardware preference

[David S.]

Hi,

I have been using FreeBSD 10 and Bird since the beginning and recently
upgraded my FreeBSD to 13.2 and Bird 2.0.13.1. I'm using a Dell R630 with
dual Intel E5-2680v4, Memory 32GB, and Solarflare SFN7122 Onload (a pretty
old card).

FreeBSD 13 had a lot of improvements on its routing stack and the bridge
drivers and never had serious problems with it. My router receives full
routes from 2 internet upstream and a few local exchanges; the traffic is
about 5-10 Gbps during the peak load.

I'm sure you already know that FreeBSD also has Netmap, which works great
with an Intel X520 card. ;)

Best regards,
David S.
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 3:30 PM Benoit Chesneau <benoitc at enki-multimedia.eu>
wrote:

> This would be interresting to compare to FreeBSD performance .I wonder if
> DDPK on on FreeBSD worth it. Are people still using freebsd on networking
> platforms? It seems that even Bird support is lagging behind linux support
> sometimes.
>
> Benoît
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, August 24th, 2023 at 19:57, Pim van Pelt via Bird-users <
> bird-users at network.cz> wrote:
>
> Hoi
>
> I write a lot about (kernel and user space) routing performance on
> https://ipng.ch/s/articles/ including hardware and dataplane acceleration
> (with VPP and DPDK) on small (Fitlet2 or PCEngines), medium (Supermicro
> Xeon 1518D or Netgate 6100), and very large (Ryzen/Milan/Xeon Platinum)
> systems, from 100kpps and 1Gbit, all the way to 180Gbit/150Mpps.
>
> As a control plane, the choice of software be it Bird or FRR or OpenBGPd
> et al, is less relevant than your choice of kernel or dataplane
> acceleration.
>
> Please take a look and let me know what you think.
>
> Groet,
> Pim
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 19:33, Ömür Yavuz via Bird-users <
> bird-users at network.cz> wrote:
>
>> Hello community, I don't know if there is any obstacle for me to ask this
>> kind of question. Everything is fine in terms of software, but can I get a
>> hardware suggestion that millions of packages will pass through live with
>> the servant? Do you have experience with an intel cpu and chelsio t4 nic or
>> intel x5xx series? Which enterprise level devices can I use as hardware?
>>
>> ____________________________________________
>> Ömür Yavuz
>>
>> --
> Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl>
> PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/
>
>
>
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