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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thank you everybody for your responses.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Regarding the use case -</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">It's a fleet of distributed compute to be deployed over our metro ethernet network, which includes both fiber and radio assets.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Orchestration is by Ansible, and the initial use case is for the boxen to participate in a speed probe network for engineering purposes.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We're interested in speed tests which will quantify reserve performance in a way which is responsive to packet loss (i.e. TCP).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">As a high cost per node would be discouraging in the quantities we're looking at, the aim is for smaller/single-board commodity hardware which may include mobile chipsets but can nevertheless saturate a 10G link with iperf3 test traffic.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:norm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<br><div> - Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 11:17 PM, David Hooton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.hooton@ordnance.co" target="_blank">david.hooton@ordnance.co</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Tim,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pretty much any modern server will be able to do line rate 10G even with a really inefficient configuration on it.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is your use case? We have pretty average spec servers doing greater than 70Gigs with only very modest tuning.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kind Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">David Hooton<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Founder | Ordnance<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cloud Scale, Carrier Grade<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">P: <a href="tel:+61%20415%20850%20000" value="+61415850000" target="_blank">+61415850000</a> T: @dave_hooton W: <a href="http://ordnance.co" target="_blank">ordnance.co</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AusNOG <<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.<wbr>net</a>> on behalf of Tim Sheahan <<a href="mailto:tim@timsheahan.com" target="_blank">tim@timsheahan.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 2 March 2018 at 2:51 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><span class=""><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[AusNOG] Hardware for Linux / 10Gbe iperf3 hosts in the field<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_4470585443517914518__MailOriginalBody">Hello AusNOG, <u></u><u></u></a></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I'm writing to ask about hardware for deploying Linux / 10Gbe network servers into the field.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Specifically, I'm looking for hardware to deploy:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>- a mini / rackmount linux server<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>- with minimized unit cost<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>- with sufficient system capacity to saturate an SFP+ / 10Gbe link e.g. via iperf3<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Investigations so far led me to look at hardware platforms such as the Supermicro SYS-E300-8D:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><a href="https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS-E300-8D.cfm" target="_blank"><span>https://www.supermicro.com/<wbr>products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS-<wbr>E300-8D.cfm</span><span></span></a><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Is anyone aware of a particularly enticing hardware solution to minimize formfactor & cost around a 10Gbps iperf3 capability?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>If shopping to minimize hardware spend per unit, can anyone give insight on outcomes when testing for ability to saturate an SFP+ port from mobile/embedded chipsets?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thank you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> - Tim Sheahan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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