Hi, Thank your for your response. i have 2 questions: 1. can you explain the looping method that allowed you to reach 100GB ? 2. Alcatel-Lucent is routers are givven for research internationally ? or its locally? what routers we are talking about here and what link do they have? i appreciatre if you explain more how do these routers saturate 100GB.
Thanks, Sami On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Sami Halabi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have several boxes using 10G cards and using most of the bandwidth. > > as a future vision i would like to ask if someone ever combined hardware > > with freebsd/linux to saturate 100Gbit of traffic. > > what hardware (server, NICs, platform) and software do you recommend > that > > would allow me to acheive my goal? > > > > Is it possible with servers ? or i need dedicated hardware > > (cisco/juniper/other?) if dedicated hardware needed, i would be glad to > > hear from your experience what do you recommend in terms of performance > and > > price. > > I don't know of any 100GE hardware for any PC, but I may be a bit > behind on the times. > > The way we saturate a 100GE with a FreeBSD (or Linux) system is using > a 10G transmission stream and loop the data stream over the net using > MPLS. Works quite well, though no end system ever sees more than about > 9.9G, the routers do. > > We are using Alcatel-Lucent routers at this time for our national test > network. It is available for research by educational, commercial and > research organizations for a little longer as a federally funded > testbed for 100G research. When the funding for that project runs out, > most of the hardware will be re-purposed and will no longer be > available for research. gnn@ mentioned it about a year ago and > suggested that some FreeBSD people might want to submit proposals, but > I sw no responses. We have tested with Juniper and they will work, > too. All 100G hardware is just a mite pricey, though it has dropped > tremendously over the past year and a half and I expect it will > continue to do so. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: [email protected] > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
