Hoi folks,
On 26.03.2024 12:30, Ron B via
zanog-discuss wrote:
I'm certain many on here would be interested in the same hardware as used by
PIM that can which can be used for bird and frr.
I haven't been too worried as my imports have been fine and there has been
no supply crisis.
Granted i don't know much about the reseller and distributor market
in South Africa, but in case it helps:
- IPng uses these Supermicro machines, as I really do like the IPMI
and power-to-performance (38W all up for a router that can do 60Gbps
and 35Mpps).
- IPng also uses regular Dell R620/R630 from the refurb market and
~any reasonable Xeon E5 would do, as would Zen3+ CPUs (like Epyc,
Romes and Milans).
For vendors, pretty much anything that runs Debian will do: HPE,
Dell, Supermicro, whitelabel boxes, and so on. As long as the
network card is DPDK enabled (most Intel 1G/2.5G/10G+, Mellanox
Cx4+), you should be totally fine.
A modern E5 Xeon will yield between 8Mpps-15Mpps per CPU thread, and
it's relatively straight forward to get a machine with 40 cores or
even 80 cores. So realistically, the main bottleneck will be PCI bus
and network card throughput. "Any modern PC will do" and "Vendor
does not matter". I'd love to learn more about the local market,
what you can and cannot buy.
groet,
Pim
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