Recent Intel E3 and E5 processors and super-micro motherboards, with Intel dual-port 10G NIC work well for us. We can send/receive righ at line-speed on both ports concurrently with our version of pktgen, for instance.
You do need pci-e gen2 or higher. Thanks, Ben On 09/16/2016 10:34 PM, Chris Flugstad wrote: > I am looking to have some network test boxes to push 10Gb. I have 10G SFP+ > PCI E cards and modules, Switches that have SFP+ and modules. What I am > wanting to know is if there is specific specs of Computer HW I should use > with the PCI E 10Gb Cards? > > Vivian noted the harddrive and processor weren't much of a concern, but the > PCI-E bus speed would be my bottleneck. PCIE V2.0, seems that 4x, 8x, and > 16x would all be sufficient. > > Does anyone have any experience to point me at some adequate hardware? > > Thanks > Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Iperf-users mailing list > Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users > -- Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users
