FWIW, with whatever older chips I've tested with, the interrupt mitigation on the bge driver seems to be configured a bit more aggressive than on em..I see interrupt counts from bge that are 1/2 to 1/4th the count vs em for the same traffic. Both drivers support a broad range of features like hardware TCP/IPv4 checksumming, vlan tagging, ...
James Reid - McLean [[email protected]] wrote: > I don't expect the traffic levels to reach Gigabit levels so I doubt I > will ever come close to hitting any sort of limit on the interfaces, but > would I have better support with Intel chipsets over Broadcom? > > Is there a preferred Ethernet chipset for this type of setup? > > James D. Reid > Spacenet Inc. > Network Engineer > Office: (703) 848 - 1266 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Claudio Jeker > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Openbgpd Max Number of Neighbors per Instance > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:07:23PM -0400, James Reid - McLean wrote: > > Does anyone have information about the maximum number of BGP neighbors > a > > single instance of OpenBGPD could support assuming the following: > > > > 1. OpenBGPD would send only "Default Route" to each neighbor > > 2. Each neighbor would advertise only 1 subnet to OpenBGPD > > 3. OpenBGPD could run in passive mode for all of the connections > > 4. OpenBGPD running on new/current/modern fully supported hardware > with > > no other services running. > > > > I am looking to scale this configuration to support between 500 - > 10,000 > > peers and I need to know how much hardware I would need to purchase to > > support this. > > > > Nobody ever tested 10k peers but here are some tips. Get a box with > 3-4GB > of RAM. Do not run i386 (amd64 has less kvm restrictions and you will > need > a lot of kernel memory). Increase kern.maxclusters to 4-8 times the max > number of sockets you expect and don't forget to increase kern.nfiles. > > Expect to hit a few other issues as well. I know of people doing tests > with 500-1000 sessions that actually injected a few routes. But limiting > bgpd to only announce a default route should reduce the load on the RDE > massivly. > > good luck > -- > :wq Claudio > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Spacenet Inc. Notice and Disclaimer > IMPORTANT: This e-mail along with any attachment(s) is intended for the > above named addressee(s) only, and may contain information which is > proprietary, confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient or if you received this e-mail transmittal in error, please be > advised that any review, copying, use, distribution or dissemination of > this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. Please > immediately notify the sender by e-mail or to phone number 703-848-1000 > and delete this e-mail and any attachments. Thank you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance -Socrates
