Has anyone had any experiences with with the Intel X520-SR1 on a x86 box and 10g performance? We mainly use MT for a load balancer (reverse PCC implementation) with loads of simple queues (currently well over 1500+ queues, but not all active at the same time).
The server will more than likely have 32G of ram, and either 8 or 16 cores. Anything else that should be given consideration? Does the X520 behave with MT? It is on the compatibility list and confirmed as “working well,” but I’d like to hear from some real world experiences if at all possible (graphs would be even nicer)
I am curious to know the answer to this as well. we have been working on design projects to build large clusters of MikroTik routers to go beyond 100 Gig routing capacity for use in the data center.
This would be useful info to know if we decide to experiment outside of the CCR line…
Dell R410
2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz (16 Cores total)
12GB Memory (even though MT only sees 2)
RPS has been enabled/disabled - makes no difference
IRQ’s been forced to certain cores (one IRQ per core), or left on automatic settings - makes no difference
We are virtually flat lining at about 1.4Gbps to 1.6Gbps. That download should be running very close to max speeds. And as can be seen in the interface graph, for a VERY brief period, the system bursts very nicely to 8.3Gbps, but it’s not sustaining it.
No load to speak of whatsoever. When I do that same download on a Linux box with a 10G nic, I get pretty consistent 8.5Gbps.
All servers, files, etc, are on the same LAN - there is not even a WAN involved here.
I have X520-SR1 card but it is not shown in interfaces list (latest MT 6.24).
[admin@MikroTik] > /driver print
Flags: I - invalid, D - dynamic
# DRIVER IRQ IO MEMORY ISDN-PROTOCOL
0 D RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet
1 D Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express
2 D USB Keyboard/Mouse
[admin@MikroTik] >
Like you can see it is shown in console driver list but not shown in Interfaces list:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface print
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave
# NAME TYPE ACTUAL-MTU L2MTU MAX-L
0 R ether1 ether 1500 4080
[admin@MikroTik] >
ether1 is RTL8169
Can anyone tell me what to do to get x520-sr1 working with MT x86?
MT just say we don’t develop the driver so we can’t help…