A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capabilities to your servers

Re:A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capab... by walrus01 on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:35PM (#30835903)

> honestly I'm having a hard-time envisioning a target audience for this device besides the ardent homelab crowd,

1. people running weird janky WISPs, like, two guys and a pickup truck in some very rural parts of the USA. usually very budget limited.

2. small very budget limited ISPs in the developing world.

everyone else in the service provider is not using a $200 mikrotik to do serious routing of >10Gbps of traffic.

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Re:A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capab... by mechanical_bear on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:36PM (#30836428)

> people running weird janky WISPs, like, two guys and a pickup truck in some very rural parts of the USA.

I may have been involved with those guys at some point…

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Re:A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capab... by csdreamer7 on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:02PM (#30837069)

> I may have been involved with those guys at some point…

I would be interested to hear more.

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Re:A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capab... by d00bianista on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @01:09AM (#30851681)

There may be more of us here, even in the FTTH-flavor.

There are some imperfections, mostly related to bonding+ospf and vrrp-grouping but if one does not mind some warnings and a little scripts, one can make things work nicely.

Let's just say that BGP-signaled redundant uplinks and routing as close to the customer as possible are to strive for, instead of starting with a L2 port-isolation-pyramid nightmare.

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