Reimagining the future of routers

Re:Reimagining the future of routers by amazon_not on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @07:56AM (#11861570)

> yes, but current COTS hardware, via userspace networking can very easily saturate a 10g interface at 64b packet-size / core.

Citation needed.

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by feld on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:00AM (#11861586)

Heard of Netmap or DPDK?

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by amazon_not on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:07AM (#11861612)

Yes. As far as I know neither of them can push 15Mpps per core. Please please prove me wrong. I'd love to be.

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by tyingq on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @12:55PM (#11863665)

It's also comparing basically an assembled automobile with a pile of parts. I suspect there will be a well vetted router-centric distribution that leverages DPDK soon, but I don't think that exists yet.

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by bogomipz on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:53PM (#11867264)

Huh? All 10 Gig NICs can and do push 14 Mpps using minimum MTU:

http://www.ieee802.org/3/10G_study/public/speed_adhoc/email/...

What are you talking about?

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by signa11 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:10AM (#11861628)

> Citation needed.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dpdk+15mpps

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by reitanqild on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:00AM (#11862295)

I hate lmgtfy used for this. Possibly more than Citation needed.

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