Wanted: Asia bandwidth test files

Hi, I'm sitting on what is advertised as a 100mbit/sec connection in Cambodia. I have been trying to verify that, because I do not believe it is valid. I did iperf tests from a number of network locations, and at one point I did get 71mbit/sec (most of the results were around 20-25mbit/sec or

scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations

Hi, I know that specially programmed ASICs on dedicated hardware like Cisco, Juniper, etc. are going to always outperform a general purpose server running gnu/linux, *bsd... but I find the idea of trying to use proprietary, NSA-backdoored devices difficult to accept, especially when I don't have

Bulk IP abuse reporting

Hi all, It seems that outdated CLDAP servers on the internet are being used again for DDoS amplification attacks. I've got about 16k IPs that have participated in several of these over the last several weeks and I'd like to report these to the relevant abuse departments so they can be properly

Linux router network cards

I'm looking around for networking cards to build a linux based router. It needs to be able to do XDP, multiqueues, have good in-kernel driver support and be able to handle 10Gbe with good offloading for dealing with high packets per second. What features should I be looking for to really

RE: Linux router network cards

Thanks for the reply. Philip Loenneker writes: > Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle > DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between > hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some >From what I can tell, SR-IOV/PVRDMA aren't