[Bro] cluster question

[Michał Purzyński]

I second what Seth said. Correctly configured afpacket is as fast as Myricom. There - I said that.

If you have great budget and no time get napatech. If smaller budget and little time-Myricom. Just works!

Intel has the best future potential, right now requires very careful tuning. And by Intel I mean X710 these days.


> On 8 Oct 2016, at 03:24, Seth Hall <seth at icir.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 1:59 PM, Neslog <neslog at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Any performance hit seen using software based load balancing versus specialized NICs?  (Have actual test results?)
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> Some of the specialized NICs are actually doing software based load balancing as well, they just don't make it terribly clear in their marketing material or documentation. (just to muddy the waters more than they already are!)
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>  .Seth
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