On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:19:47PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > Have a look at > http://www.rmicorp.com/assets/docs/2070SG_XLR_XLS_Product_Selection_Guide_2008-12-16.pdf > specifically at the bottom few rows on the "XLS" chart. You're looking at > parts that have 3 or 4 Gig-E interfaces, tons of useful hardware offload, > and are, by published reports, way down in the sub-$50 range. You can > get very similar stuff from Cavium.
Last time I bought a cavium board it was >$5k USD... An Octeon 3850 was $700 for 1521 piece part... I didn't think they had anything reasonable down below $500? (and as far as I remember, they already had FreeBSD running on the Octeons). Admittedly it's been a few years.
