From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 04:45:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBF11065670; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:45:45 +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 C68898FC0A; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so3238591obb.13 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:45:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nCZl6uaVK0wGgQLi6TSaW/VE9LE6xmKj8i2X8IMTUvQ=; b=abkmCC7dhVj4Sq9+JM32A3NzfDuIo6Sl2OLV5Xo7hY9yk8ZoFfD53pH05gir3ny+Fd 4TdC6C2wObUeQCBVy75iMxsL3ghtrWrph0SOh9mPws7ld6T5vD7BFmqZR04xvJyZPD95 8DmbA1QUYr16KGpbT66iDj77uKurvSsPQV7zvYZGgG7d7BDzkoryvx54/jDzbhP2xVAQ GjPaz7YXHzxoZKkWD6+kEXCmeWaSmd8l84vQ19fpHh1UbwK9bOzZeKNpw96Rf5nKx7pF U1IeS6P8M5fiflwf8EzqljJTrSwnl6lYQpMWuLtXBUEL3X8yY73Ycda3F8qO2fncijQv hJrg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.168.230 with SMTP id zz6mr53120029oeb.11.1342068344110; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.124.101 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:45:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:45:43 +0300 Message-ID: From: Sami Halabi To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel , "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ating 100Gbit transfer rate X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:45:45 -0000 Hi, Thank your for your response. i have 2 questions: 1. can you explain the looping method that allowed you to reach 100GB ? 2. Alcatel-Lucent is routers are givven for research internationally ? or its locally? what routers we are talking about here and what link do they have? i appreciatre if you explain more how do these routers saturate 100GB. Thanks, Sami On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Sami Halabi wrote: > > 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. > > I don't know of any 100GE hardware for any PC, but I may be a bit > behind on the times. > > The way we saturate a 100GE with a FreeBSD (or Linux) system is using > a 10G transmission stream and loop the data stream over the net using > MPLS. Works quite well, though no end system ever sees more than about > 9.9G, the routers do. > > We are using Alcatel-Lucent routers at this time for our national test > network. It is available for research by educational, commercial and > research organizations for a little longer as a federally funded > testbed for 100G research. When the funding for that project runs out, > most of the hardware will be re-purposed and will no longer be > available for research. gnn@ mentioned it about a year ago and > suggested that some FreeBSD people might want to submit proposals, but > I sw no responses. We have tested with Juniper and they will work, > too. All 100G hardware is just a mite pricey, though it has dropped > tremendously over the past year and a half and I expect it will > continue to do so. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert