[Click] [OT] - Any suggestions on what hardware to buy?

[Roman Chertov]

Alastair McKinley wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Apologies for the slightly off topic question.
> 
> I want to run Click on a powerful machine with lots of interfaces
> (10-50, the more the better), and I was hoping that someone here might
> have an idea what to look for.
> 
> I guess I want e1000 NICS to support polling.  Can I buy such a beast
> off the shelf or should I build my own?  If I were to build it, what
> would I get to support enough e1000 NICS? 

I know that you can buy multi-port Intel Pros (e1000).  So you can get 
by with fewer cards.  I think 4 is the maximum.  That would require you 
to have 10 PCI slots to get 40 ports.  I am not sure who builds such 
motherboards.  Also you want the motherboard to have PCI-E bus to allow 
for maximum throughput.  Ideally you would use a at least two processors
for this thing.  Although I think this all depends on what traffic you 
expect to deal with.  If you expect the traffic to be small then you can 
get buy with a lesser machine.

> 
> Should I be looking to run multi-threaded Click on SMP?

You need SMP to get the full benefits of multi-threaded click.

Roman

> 
> Again, apologies for the off-topic question.  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
> 
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