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Anyone got any idea how to build your own router with PowerEdge, AMD EPYC and idk, pfsense?

• bauruine 3y ago
  If you want to go down the rabbit hole have a look at VPP. [0] It's a very fast, like 100GBit/s+ and 100 Mpps+, user space routing engine for commodity x86 hardware. Pim van Pelt has many interesting Videos [1] and articles [2] about it. I only tested it briefly before abandoning it because I'm still stuck on measly ~300/120 g.fast for the foreseeable future so I don't need it yet but especially the Linux CP [3] makes it reasonably workable if you have some Linux networking knowledge. [0]: https://fd.io/ https://fd.io/ [1]: https://video.ipng.ch/search?search=vpp&searchTarget=local https://video.ipng.ch/search?search=vpp&searchTarget=local [2]: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/ https://ipng.ch/s/articles/ [3]: https://github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng https://github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng
• wmf 3y ago
  Just install PFSense and follow the docs?
• edward28 3y ago
  Well pfsense won't benefit from this as it is FreeBSD based.
  • speed_spread 3y ago
    Maybe it's already faster than Linux?
    • klooney 3y ago
      Have people benchmarked this recently? I feel like this flamewar is still based on forum posts from 1998
      • wmf 3y ago
        I haven't seen any recent head-to-head benchmarks but Netflix is getting really good performance from FreeBSD networking and they publish detailed information about it. It gets discussed here every six months or so. Of course networking encompasses many different workloads (e.g. routing with PFSense is going to be a different code path than serving data over HTTPS) and each OS probably has its own strengths and weaknesses.
  • aetherspawn 3y ago
    Hm, best Linux alternative? Is Linux the “best” for this?
    • nixgeek 3y ago
      VyOS, probably.
      • coretx 3y ago
        Or simply OpenWRT.
• dboreham 3y ago
  s/PowerEdge/supermicro/
  • aetherspawn 3y ago
    That’s a good idea, thanks.