Low Cost 10G Router

[math at sizone.org (Ken Chase)]

Chat in my nerds irc channel about 10G routers paralleling this

14:21 <b> the Xeon D-1540 has 8 cores / 16 threads, 2GHz base clock with 
              2.6GHz turbo, and dual 10G nics on chip
14:21 <b> 45W TDP
14:31 <b> supposedly an asrock board is coming that can be 10Gbase-T or SFP+
14:58 <a> supermicro are shipping some SFP+ 10G E5 boards
15:00 <b> but the xeon E5 doesn't have the on die 10G nic
15:07 <a> X9DRW-7TPF+

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x9drw-7tpf_.cfm

Also: 1.4Mpps per 10G link doesnt seem like the minimum packetsize one wants for
handling DOS attacks, but I might be bad at math.

/kc


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:46:16PM -0500, Joe Greco said:
  >> How cheap is cheap and what performance numbers are you looking for?
  >> 
  >> About as cheap as you can get:
  >> 
  >> For about $3,000 you can build a Supermicro OEM system with an 8-core Xeon
  >> E5 V3 and 4-port 10G Intel SFP+ NIC with 8G of RAM running VyOS.  The pro
  >> is that BGP convergence time will be good (better than a 7200 VXR), and
  >> number of tables likely won't be a concern since RAM is cheap.  The con is
  >> that you're not doing things in hardware, so you'll have higher latency,
  >> and your PPS will be lower.
  >
  >What 8 core Xeon E5 v3 would that be?  The 26xx's are hideously pricey,
  >and for a router, you're probably better off with something like a
  >Supermicro X10SRn fsvo "n" with a Xeon E5-1650v3.  Board is typically
  >around $300, 1650 is around $550, so total cost I'm guessing closer to 
  >$1500-$2000 that route.
  >
  >The edge you get there is the higher clock on the CPU.  Only six cores
  >and only 15M cache, but 3.5GHz.  The E5-2643v3 is three times the cost
  >for very similar performance specs.  Costwise, E5 single socket is the 
  >way to go unless you *need* more.
  >
  >... JG
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