Cumulus Networks has some stuff, http://www.bigswitch.com/sites/default/files/presentations/onug-baremetal-2014-final.pdf
Pretty decent presentation with more details you like. Mehmet > On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:53 PM, micah anderson <mi...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I know that specially programmed ASICs on dedicated hardware like Cisco, > Juniper, etc. are going to always outperform a general purpose server > running gnu/linux, *bsd... but I find the idea of trying to use > proprietary, NSA-backdoored devices difficult to accept, especially when > I don't have the budget for it. > > I've noticed that even with a relatively modern system (supermicro with > a 4 core 1265LV2 CPU, with a 9MB cache, Intel E1G44HTBLK Server > adapters, and 16gig of ram, you still tend to get high percentage of > time working on softirqs on all the CPUs when pps reaches somewhere > around 60-70k, and the traffic approaching 600-900mbit/sec (during a > DDoS, such hardware cannot typically cope). > > It seems like finding hardware more optimized for very high packet per > second counts would be a good thing to do. I just have no idea what is > out there that could meet these goals. I'm unsure if faster CPUs, or > more CPUs is really the problem, or networking cards, or just plain old > fashioned tuning. > > Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome! > micah >