On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
These cards are in the $5000 range and if you are lighting up fiber then
you need some xenpaks that start around $1000 to $15000 ea. (If you want to
light up strands from, say, Lansing to Ann Arbor, you would be using the
$15000 part at each end, one with a 60 mile rating anyways)
Before you go out and buy some, you might want to make sure that openbsd can
handle the packet per second load that you expect to have. You may find that
you have to use commercial switching gear to get what you really want.
Stephan Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking at the possibility of helping get a 10G speed network
running. This is new territory to me--for OpenBSD purposes, are
there more solid drivers out there? I'm told that the machine
would want to exchange a lot of data, constantly (video stuff).
Part of my consideration would also be what 10G companies
have been open source friendly with hardware, etc. If I can I'd
like to spend money somewhere that deserves it.
Ideas?
Thanks, STeve Andre'
Stephan
Chris is spot on with the handle the packet per second load that you
expect to have comment. 10G driver support is relatively nascent on
OpenBSD. The pricing however is a little high, especially if you look
at other O/S besides OpenBSD. The Myricom's are very price competitive,
even with the optics. I know OpenBSD developers have Myri cards, and
support is on the horizon. reyk and loki have been doing the 10G work,
perhaps one or the other will chime in.
my devalued US$.02 worth
diana
