From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 20:31:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D0B106566C; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sodynet1@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BB68FC08; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so2589110obb.13 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1/SA2SGFY1rvuuH8yybgis1k39f981yziuNpMkDWuEs=; b=KSLdC+tK84tbE+q0yjSiQujhQ1XsfXEovaaqHX+YCD4R5VWals7T1MBebIBe0FIeFH yuDQyUI4RxMtf5KYiC/D6JEJjGIUJgLmuJqm/GQ7u48QyCtQqGFigbFwfjc6wujF3VwG TaOH20K4ukTj3St29uCrw6fNZlE00lPBuQAi9Pb8Tu3U925VOX4y+vXSG3YPGYv+jFPm eHvHL8mqBzx66RbVOp6MCRMhLUAau8wPSuJlLE0VjZklt0fkqdvR3pScTXsChw7sYbRB NhDmeIcJQtKAqZ3ciT8jq6qlhuRDeWmRfAuyFXQfcjmd4DJpD+L91Kf6tfHJl8xWoeVm fLpQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.52.38 with SMTP id q6mr46444570obo.8.1342038708797; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.124.101 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:31:48 +0300 Message-ID: From: Sami Halabi To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel , Alexander Motin , "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , Luigi Rizzo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: ating 100Gbit transfer rate X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:31:49 -0000 Hi, We have several boxes using 10G cards and using most of the bandwidth. as a future vision i would like to ask if someone ever combined hardware with freebsd/linux to saturate 100Gbit of traffic. what hardware (server, NICs, platform) and software do you recommend that would allow me to acheive my goal? Is it possible with servers ? or i need dedicated hardware (cisco/juniper/other?) if dedicated hardware needed, i would be glad to hear from your experience what do you recommend in terms of performance and price. Thanks in advance, -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert