Returning to the Valley from SF, feeling mostly quite tired (in a generally good way).
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Returning to the Valley from SF, feeling mostly quite tired (in a generally good way). Will soon depart, then work, then sometime in the evening decided whether to install a MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, or a Mellanox CX-5 2x25G (OCP v2 form factor) mounted on a PCIe converter card. 🤔
Ok, suppose it's time to get ready.
#homelab #SF #networking #linux #freebsd #engineering #nvidia #mellanox #mikrotik
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Returning to the Valley from SF, feeling mostly quite tired (in a generally good way). Will soon depart, then work, then sometime in the evening decided whether to install a MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, or a Mellanox CX-5 2x25G (OCP v2 form factor) mounted on a PCIe converter card. 🤔
Ok, suppose it's time to get ready.
#homelab #SF #networking #linux #freebsd #engineering #nvidia #mellanox #mikrotik
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe My concern with the Mikrotik PCI-E card is the lack of a switch chip, meaning the CPU can very easily eat into the line rate potential for traffic forwarding. That's why it never has caught on with a regular DPU / Smart NIC, in my book.
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@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe My concern with the Mikrotik PCI-E card is the lack of a switch chip, meaning the CPU can very easily eat into the line rate potential for traffic forwarding. That's why it never has caught on with a regular DPU / Smart NIC, in my book.
@mrhamel Agreed, it's certainly not a real DPU and it can't compete with any of the usual ones; at ~1/10th the cost of most Bluefields it's not capable of doing so. Re: switch chip, yep I wish it had one, so it's mostly useful for routing and as a set of static interfaces when not actively running L3 services. Odd little device and an interesting product experiment for their engineering teams.
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@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm so much guessing 🫣
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@muhkayoh thank you!!!!!!!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Sadly there’s 0 chance @rbreich or his team will read this… the account looks like a bot 😤
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@julian @elena @johnonolan @heathenstorm but I experienced that Mastodon ignores `Update`s for posts that where not `Create`ed before...
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se anche le scale nobili lo schifano ...
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1970497095514595695
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@alex I can’t believe our luck with the weather this week!
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@Em0nM4stodon … I had done zero research. Just drove here, mostly expecting a beach car park and some craggy cliffs. Of course, there’s a full visitor centre and all kinds of (excellent) facilities. The views are superb and the weather has been unexpectedly perfect on this trip.
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@andypiper Wow!🤩
