Darn I wish I'd made it to that show today. On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:11 PM, wrote: > http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9154394.htm (10 GigE FMC card) > > impressive. Seems to require a hpc (high pin count) board, which zed isn't. > http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/1-2AJPAV.htm (1 GiGE FMC > card) > 625 eu. While I am painfully aware of how much it costs to step ahead of the bleeding edge, I think the odds are pointing harder and harder at doing a non-fpga design that does what I want... I may go back to looking at octeons or ti's new octeon killer. And/or leveraging a newer atheros reference board. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Dave Taht" > Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:39pm > To: dpreed@reed.com > Cc: "Mark Constable" , > cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] stanford talk/deluged in hardware/yurtlab > > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:26 AM, wrote: > >> It would be trivial to do this with a Zedboard. >> > > Well, need two network ports. Haven't figured out much on interfacing the > thing to offboard gear (I'd have liked it if it had a pci interface). So is > interfacing up a second network card "trivial" on the I/Os provided? > > And wanted esata, or some high speed disk I/O interface for captures. > > I'd rather like to continue forward on the zedboard front. The prospect of > designing an ethernet chip that actually could incorporate fq_codel etc is > very exciting. The RGII interface is available to access directly, in > particular. > > > > > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Dave Taht" >> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 1:17pm >> To: "Mark Constable" >> Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net >> Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] stanford talk/deluged in hardware/yurtlab >> >> Well, I see it for 320. Then you need to add a SSD, and a decent >> network card, and I suppose it could be made to work. Awful big, tho, in an >> era where I can get 1/2TB on an 2.5 inch SSD. >> >> What I'd wanted was closer to a dreamplug - 160 bucks, two network ports, >> but with an internal SSD. bonus points if it fit into a 1U rack and ate as >> little power as possible. >> >> Principal use case here is to be a "network monitor" with enough oomph to >> run stuff like cacti/mrtg/snmp tools, as well as do captures off of a >> mirrored switch port. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark Constable wrote: >>> >>>> On 2013-02-03 09:18am, Dave Taht wrote: >>>> > I'm grumpy, as it doesn't have an esata interface internally, >>>> apparently. >>>> >>>> https://www.google.com?q=HP+N40L+MicroServer >>>> >>>> I know this is no where near an embedded device but I just got one of >>>> these >>>> on sale (new model out) for $220 and I think it's the most useful >>>> all-round >>>> cheap server box I've ever seen. Some people have it running 16 GB ram >>>> and >>>> I've got mine booting off an SSD via external eSATA. Very well built >>>> with 2 >>>> x half height PCI slots (4 x eth port card?). Only missing USB3 ports >>>> and >>>> hot-swap drive space. And, very quiet with just an SSD. >>>> >>> >>> I'd be very interested to know how fast it could do packet header >>> captures. >>> >>> Line rate (gigE) would be good. >>> >>> Does it do BQL? (what is the onboard ethernet chips) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Cerowrt-devel mailing list >>>> Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net >>>> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dave Täht >>> >>> Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: >>> http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Täht >> >> Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: >> http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html >> > > > > -- > Dave Täht > > Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: > http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html > -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html