How to get best performance with NICs on Intel platforms

Source: This document is a step-by-step guide for getting high performance from DPDK applications on Intel platforms. 7.1. Hardware and Memory Requirements For best performance use an Intel Xeon class server system such as Ivy Bridge, Haswell or newer.…

Open vSwitch* with DPDK Overview

This article presents a high-level overview of Open vSwitch* with the Data Plane Development Kit (OvS-DPDK)—the high performance, open source virtual switch—and links to further technical articles that dive deeper into individual OvS-DPDK features. This article was written for users…

Mikrotik WiFi Bridge

– Asus has DHCP server pool 192.168.1.1/25– Mikrotik gets WiFi Station hooked on DHCP given IP 192.168.1.87– I’ve created IP 192.168.2.0/24 in ETH2 interface of Mikrotik– Assigned IP 192.168.2.233 to my laptop– Created routing on Asus for 192.168.2.0/24 towards 192.168.1.87…

LACP bonding and Linux configuration

Source: This blog introduces Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) bonding and provides step-by-step configuration of LACP bonding on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS operating systems versions 6 and 7. Introduction Network bonding enables the combination of two or…

QOS queue shaping with Ixia

Ixia load test tool download page Function The qos queue shaping command enables traffic shaping for a queue on a specified interface and sets traffic shaping parameters. The undo qos queue shaping command restores the default scheduling parameters of each queue on an…

Home DC VMware CCNA LAB

I wanted to check some functionalities of VMware and Huawei Fusion Sphere therefore decided to build small LAB for testing. Currently I have ordered Pair of servers HP ProLiant dl360 g7 2x e5620 2.40ghz 4 Core CPU 24gb RAM p410i…