Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-07-03 Thread Zack Newman
On 7/3/23 12:59, Rachel Roth wrote: For the record, "API not working" is not exclusively about mediaopt settings. "API not working" also kills SFP DOM stats, something which is quite useful when troubleshooting with third-parties on the other side of your fibre link. When someone on the othe

Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-07-03 Thread Rachel Roch
2 Jul 2023, 22:58 by z...@philomathiclife.com: >  As a result, there is not much to "negotiate" > anyway. In summary if 10GSFP+Cu is acceptable, then you shouldn't worry > about the API not working on OpenBSD. > For the record, "API not working" is not exclusively about mediaopt settings.  "

Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-07-02 Thread Zack Newman
On 7/1/23 18:26, Zack Newman wrote: As Rachel pointed out, OpenBSD 7.3 does not work with the API of that NIC when the newest firmware is flashed. Not sure what the most recent version of firmware that has a working API is, but it is not a problem for me since autonegotiation works just fine. If

Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-07-01 Thread Zack Newman
I don't have any 10 Gbps NICs, so I cannot comment on that level of throughput. I do have a couple 2.5 Gbps machines, and my system saturates them with ease. No way to know if there is 7.5 Gbps more I could get out of them without actually testing it. Motherboard: Supermicro X13SAE flashed with n

Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-06-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2023-06-29, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > We are about to discover the joys of upstream BGP routing :-P The > current plan is to use a pair of OpenBSD+bgpd hosts as the routers. > > Each host will require 4x10gig ports (SFP+). One of those links > (to AWS) will be close to saturat

Re: BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-06-30 Thread Rachel Roch
29 Jun 2023, 23:57 by lyn...@orthanc.ca: > We are about to discover the joys of upstream BGP routing :-P The > current plan is to use a pair of OpenBSD+bgpd hosts as the routers. > > Each host will require 4x10gig ports (SFP+). One of those links > (to AWS) will be close to saturated, along

BGP Router Hardware Suggestions

2023-06-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
We are about to discover the joys of upstream BGP routing :-P The current plan is to use a pair of OpenBSD+bgpd hosts as the routers. Each host will require 4x10gig ports (SFP+). One of those links (to AWS) will be close to saturated, along with the downlink to our switches. The other two will