Thanks for the reply.

Philip Loenneker <philip.loenne...@tasmanet.com.au> writes:
> Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle
> DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between
> hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some

>From what I can tell, SR-IOV/PVRDMA aren't really useful for me in
building a router that wont be doing any virtualization.

If the card can do DPDK, can it do XDP?

> The slidedeck for the presentation is here:
> https://www.ausnog.net/sites/default/files/ausnog-2019/presentations/1.9_Rhod_Brown_AusNOG2019.pdf
>
> It's heavily targeting virtualised workloads but some of the feature sets 
> apply to bare-metal uses too.

Yeah, this wont be a virtualized environment, just a router passing
packets, dropping them, handling bgp and collecting flows.

-- 
        micah

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