29 Jun 2023, 23:57 by lyndon@orthanc.ca:
> We are about to discover the joys of upstream BGP routing :-P The
> current plan is to use a pair of OpenBSD+bgpd hosts as the routers.
>
> Each host will require 4x10gig ports (SFP+). One of those links
> (to AWS) will be close to saturated, along with the downlink to our
> switches. The other two will only need to carry ~1Gb/s of traffic.
>
> We are pretty much a Supermicro shop, and I'm wondering if anyone
> out there is running a similar setup on SM hardware. My main concern
> is finding NICs that will let us squeeze every last drop of bandwidth
> on the 10gig links.
>
I have had excellent luck on 1g using HotLava (https://www.hotlavasystems.com/) cards which are Intel based but custom design.
I am currently working on upgrading parts of my network to 10g, also using HotLava, but sadly the OpenBSD devs need to update the ixl drivers to match the newer Intel API because at the moment stuff like "ifconfig ixl sff" returns nothing when it should return transciever DOM data.
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