[Bro] A few questions

Tyler Schoenke Tyler.Schoenke at colorado.edu
Thu Feb 4 09:13:01 PST 2010


On 02/04/2010 09:29 AM, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
> That may work today:  The Intel Research Labs folks have been able to get Click to move 12 Gbps through a single dual-interface PCIe x8 (pretty close to the theoretical limit, BTW) Intel 10 GigE card using kernel mode drivers and the latest Intel hardware.  With a separate card for in and out on separate PCI-E busses, you might indeed be able to get 10 Gbps in and 10 Gbps packet-marked back out.  I don't know if their click kernel mode drivers are available.

Thanks for the info.  I'll try to contact them and see if their code is
available.  My server is certified to run RHEL, and they have Linux
drivers available for the 10 GigE cards as well, so something like this
may work.


> It would also probably be easier to just send packets back out a different 10 Gbps interface, and just overwrite the MAC and let a COTS switch then handle the routing to particular worker nodes, rather than having a collection of 1 Gbps interfaces.

You can tell I'm not a networking person.  That sounds like a better,
streamlined, and more expandable idea.

Thanks,

Tyler



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