Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Jason Maude - Fusion Broadband
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. ___ AusNOG mailing list AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Tim Raphael
Overall, the article being discussed only does very precursory testing. In my recent adventures of deploying OSS routing for mission critical services, there has to be a mix of raw performance, stability and performance with varied feature-sets (NAT, QoS, Load-Balancing etc). The article above l

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Paul Wilkins
>> "if performance matters (and it does very much so), why would you be using *_anything_* virtualised at all..." Because it's not actually possible to write meaningful SLAs for time multiplexed services. At the end of the day I agree with Brad, if you need a performant system you want resident h

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Nikolas Geyer
Cisco TRex does a pretty decent job of generating ridiculous amounts of traffic if you have a supported NIC, and it’s open source. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 4, 2019, at 8:57 PM, Rob Thomas wrote: > > Well, that's kinda the point of actually doing performance tests! 8) > > If you didn't re

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Rob Thomas
Well, that's kinda the point of actually doing performance tests! 8) If you didn't read the article, using 4 cores of a 7 year old CPU can route 12gbit of traffic at 13% cpu (or 17gbit on a 4 year old CPU), I think the actual data speaks for itself. Unfortunately, after 20gbit, it gets hard to GE

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Robert Hudson
Because the amount of CPU available on virtualised platforms is more than sufficient for most people's needs? Because the numerous advantages of virtualisation far outweigh the (perceived) performance penalties? Because sometimes you don't actually have a choice? Like any good tool, virtualisation

Re: [AusNOG] Software Defined Routers

2019-10-04 Thread Noel Butler
if performance matters (and it does very much so), why would you be using _ANYTHING_ virtualised at all... On 03/10/2019 23:19, Guy Ellis wrote: > Has anyone bothered to evaluate TNSR which I will think replace pfsense where > performance really matters? -- Kind Regards, Noel Butler