[Click] high throughput hardware configurations

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Abdul,

Click is a forwarding path -- it doesn't have a lot of support for transport 
protocols.  In fact it has no support at all for SCTP.

Eddie


Abdul Hakeem wrote:
> Hello,
> I wanted to know if it's possible to compile Click with SCTP options.
> Best regards,
> Abdul Hakeem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> [mailto:click-bounces at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Nikitas Liogkas
> Sent: 19 February 2005 02:27
> To: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: [Click] high throughput hardware configurations
> 
> 
> Hello Clickers!
> 
> we are trying to put together a testbed for running Click experiments here 
> at UCLA, and I was wondering whether you could share with us the hardware 
> configurations (processor, PCI bus, main memory, motherboard, network cards,
> 
> Linux kernel and Click version) that worked for you, and that resulted in 
> high throughput with Click.
> 
> For example, I know that Giorgio Calarco from the University of Bologna, 
> Italy, has been using the following kind of hardware to achieve loss-free 
> throughput of 737 Kpackets/sec running uniprocessor Click:
> - dual Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz (with HyperThreading disabled)
> - Intel E7501 chipset motherboard with a 533 MHz FSB and four PCI-X slots
> - four Intel 88544EI Gigabit ethernet cards, two of them plugged in 
> 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X slots, and two in 64-bit/100 MHz PCI-X slots
> - main memory?
> 
> We'd love to know what configs worked for you, and any suggestions for 
> hardware purchases you might have. Thanks so much!
> 
> nikitas
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