Building a 25 Gbit/s SCION Network Testbench Workstation
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romshark
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Summary
A detailed technical blog post documenting the construction of a high-performance 25 Gbit/s workstation for SCION network testing. The author describes building a system with an LGA4677 socket, 12-core Intel Xeon CPU, and 3x Mellanox NVIDIA BlueField-2 Dual-25G smart NICs to create a testbench for developing and testing AF_XDP underlay for SCION. The article provides comprehensive coverage of the planning, building, and configuration process for this specialized networking workstation.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis is an LGA4677 socket and it's about to be fitted with a 12-core Intel Xeon CPU to power the 64 PCIe Gen5 lanes for 3x Mellanox NVIDIA BlueField-2 Dual-25G smart NICs
I built it to develop and test a new AF_XDP underlay for the SCION OSS
SCION OSS has received significant data plane performance improvements over the past years, but still requires further work
In this article, I'll walk you through the entire planning, building, and configuration process in almost full detail
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