Is there an explanation for why LEGO keeps sprinkling trademark symbols absolutely Everywhere™️? Surely that’s not legally required to protect something like Star Wars IP
Anybody have any docs or performance figures for how much CPU is "enough" for routing/firewalling a given amount of bandwidth?
My current core router (Debian box with an i3-4160 and a dual 10G NIC plus some 1G interfaces) is getting long in the tooth and doesn't have enough PCIe lanes to add all the stuff I want, so I'm planning its retirement some time later this year.
I'm targeting ~10 year lifetimes for new builds at this point, so it needs to have the oomph to last through a bunch of network upgrades.
I'm thinking I would be happy with something that could handle 40G or 100G cross-vlan traffic (plus a few hundred Mbps to/from the internet but that's negligible) in a router-on-a-stick configuration.
But I have no idea how much CPU you actually need to do this. Currently eyeing a Xeon 5416S (EDIT: or a 5415+ which is half as many cores but significantly higher Fmax) somewhat arbitrarily, but I have no idea if this is overkill or insufficient.
@azonenberg@gsuberland I worry about the energy intensity of doing 100G routing in software if it’s really going to be just some static routes (unless you specifically want to work on that routing software). Something like the MikroTik CRS504 will do it and pull <30 watts from the wall as a router-on-stick.
@azonenberg@gsuberland what, 64MB RAM and 16MB flash not enough for you??? yeah, it won’t do all that but for the static routes plus perhaps the DHCP, it’d do the trick
Had my eardrum rupture today, bloody mess. I've clearly had a sheltered life since that was the most pain I've ever experienced. Went to urgent care (“come back tomorrow" cost 338€), the very nice super good hotel agreed to extend my stay for two more nights even though they're sold out. So I'm hanging in there.
I don't usually have ear trouble but when I do, it’s invariably when travelling. Last time was in Hong Kong, the public hospital there expedited me ahead of everyone and charged something like $50 for the privilege.
@janl will know more tomorrow with the specialist appointment. But I drove over some mountain roads in the Pyrenees yesterday with an ear canal blocked, got some ear drops to dissolve the blockage today, they did the job and I guess somehow the pressure differential was still there after 24 hours or so -> boom
It’s the start of my European tour! On a ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm now. Tomorrow, it’s an MX204 install in Stockholm, then off to Hamburg to set up a new PoP. The final destination is our new edge location in Barcelona. I think I’m going to see a LOT of chargers over the next week.
Road trip update! MX204 install in Stockholm is done, but took two hours more than I thought (I didn’t have a config ready to go). Now in the lovely Clarion Collection Hotel Victoria in Jönköping, where they called me on the way to ask if I wanted some food from the evening buffet kept for me (the buffet closed two hours before I got here). !!!
In Dortmund I accidentally ended up in a hotel that was closed off to house the Atlético players. The Spanish-speaking security folks asked what I was doing there, and I told them I was there to pee. They were super nice and let me do just that!