Choosing CPU for router

[Han Hwei Woo]

Get Intel NIC's, and the fastest clockspeed CPU you can find. I'd recommend:

Intel Core i5 670 (3.46GHz)
Supermicro X8SIL-F Motherboard (includes KVM over IP)


Дмитрий Замураев wrote:
>> 2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm at ide.resurscentrum.se>:
>>     
>>> Narrowed it down to the following:
>>>
>>> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz
>>> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz
>>>
>>> What would be the benefit from a Xeon?
>>>
>>> The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with
>>> that, standard services like dhcpd.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Xeons usually got more cache memory on board and mean to work on
>> servers (read: stable). And of course there should be ECC memory.
>>     
> Xeon may work in multi-CPU servers.
> Speaking of routers, you have multicore (2CPU x 4cores = 8cores)
> machine with 1-2-3 NIC's, and can't load other cores in CPU
> (earlier versions before FBSD 8.x).
>
> You need NIC with MSI (Interrupt Moderation) for better performance.
>
> 1. What kind of traffic did you expect?
> 2. What flow bit per seconds did you expect?
>
> I  have PPPoE concentrator based on S3000AHV motherboard with EXPI9400
> and EXPI9402 NIC's and Core2Quad Q6600 CPU and FreeBSD 7.2.
> This  router  may handle about 150k pps and 1Gbps for one direction of
> internet traffic.
> Do you need core i5/7 ?
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: Choosing CPU for router
> From:
> Andrei Kolu <antik at bsd.ee>
> Date:
> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:15:01 +0200
> To:
> freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>
> To:
> freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>
>
> 2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm at ide.resurscentrum.se>:
>   
>> Hi.
>>
>> In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible
>> CPU for the job.
>>
>> Narrowed it down to the following:
>>
>> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz
>> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz
>>
>> What would be the benefit from a Xeon?
>>
>> Motherboard: Supermicro X8SBI-4LN.
>> RAM: 4GB
>>
>> The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with
>> that, standard services like dhcpd.
>>
>> Any thoughts appreciated.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Xeons usually got more cache memory on board and mean to work on
> servers (read: stable). And of course there should be ECC memory.
> AFAIK you can't install more than one CORE cpu onto multicpu
> motherboard but you can do so with XEON.
>
> Did you mean this:
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8STi-LN4.cfm
> board?
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