💕Sunday Fun with OCP NICs 💕

a few pics while passing about the office. went to storage and found the Bluefield DPUs and some DAC - those will be used in the load generator when benchmarking the cards. somewhere around here is a multimeter and thermal laser meter thing, also important for validating sustained workload capability within hardware operating limits.

#homelab #networking #neteng #mellanox #intel #r86s #freebsd

some more fun in store for the R86s nodes. three options for 25G OCP. should arrive sometime next week.

#homelab #freebsd #neteng #networking #embedded #r86s #mellanox #qlogic #broadcom

大約半年前我把 #Ubiquiti #EdgeRouterX（erx）的韌體改成 #OpenWrt ，原廠韌體的UI不錯但是很難擴充功能。

上個月我家的網路升級到300M/100M，跑測速發現只能跑150M左右，原因在於開啟 #SQM #QoS ，這個功能只能運作在單核心，而erx的CPU運算能力很弱。關掉QoS之後雖然可以跑到300M，但是CPU負載很高。

erx用的SOC是聯發科 #MT7621 ，可以開啟硬體加速（Hardware offloading），開啟之後即使網路頻寬用滿CPU也毫無壓力，問題是SQM QoS也無法使用。

如果必須要使用SQM的話，可能就要考慮x86 CPU的路由器，如下面連結這台 #R86S 。
https://www.servethehome.com/the-gowin-r86s-revolution-low-power-2-5gbe-and-10gbe-intel-nvidia/

R86S mini PC features Intel Jasper Lake processor, optional 10 Gbps Ethernet ports (firewall or networking appliance)

https://liliputing.com/r86s-mini-pc-features-intel-jasper-lake-processor-optional-10-gbps-ethernet-ports-firewall-or-networking-appliance/

#r86s #liliputing #MiniPC #Networking #Computers