Re: Any 10GigE recommendations

[nirav j. <jas...@us...>]

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From: Paul Hyder <Pau...@no...>
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:42 pm
Subject: Any 10GigE recommendations

> I've got two Itanium boxes with Intel 10GigE cards (back to back). 
> Just
> starting testing with iperf 2.0.1 and am looking for suggestions for
> configuration and tuning.  Anything particular to watch out for?

Getting the max. out of those 10Gig cards will require some performance tuning.
These links might help;

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/vwelch/net_perf/tcp_windows.html

You can find additional links at the bottom of the Iperf project page (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf)

You might also want to look at a different transport (other than TCP) like BIC-TCP, HSTCP, FAST, etc. BIC-TCP has been implemented in the latest linux kernel.

- Nirav Jasapara.