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[Tim Chown <>]

Some production use case would be superb to see.

You’ll have a slot at STF to promote RARE.

Tim

> On 18 Sep 2020, at 14:21, Frédéric LOUI <> wrote:
> 
> Wonderful box !
> 
> I can confirm this is a very valid CPE that can be a NREN CPE.
> 
> So far, mine is running 24x7 and is handling massive gaming/ YouTube 
> traffic activity (thanks kids and miss !)
> 
> It would be great to have a candidate NREN willing to test this CPE in real 
> TRL9 condition !
> 
> Anyway just to let you know that Csaba’s box cost 400eur because of an i7 
> with AES-NI (so better if you need VPN concentrator feature)
> 
> Mine is 200eur but this is pure retail price.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that with the « volume » massive buying effect price can be 
> significantly lower ...
> 
> Lets see if KIFU will do something with it soon now L2TP is available  ;)
> 
> À bientôt,
> --  Frederic
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 17 sept. 2020 à 15:35, mc36 <> a écrit :
>> 
>> hi,
>> my next experiment was with the also just arrived appliance...
>> it's a 4thread i7-7500u with 6 nics and a lot of ram... it
>> costed 400euros but floui have a very similar one with much
>> reasonable j1900 and ram, and that one costed only 200euros,
>> and have similar performance except the crypto stuff...
>> my guy tested with l2tp because that is what kifu badly needs,
>> especially with mpls over it... :)
>> nevertheless to say the box is wirespeed, so here are the stats:
>> the ports are divided to threads, one used 11% the other 22%.
>> from the above, the box could do 16gbps in total traffic, that
>> is more than enough for it's 6 ports...
>> then i enabled macsec with aes256+sha1 and since it have aes-ni,
>> it was wirespeed, and used 75%+15% of the cpu threads for that,
>> so the box is capable of 4gbps total crypto bandwidth...
>> regards,
>> cs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> qotom#show interfaces sd2 hwhistory
>>      1584m|
>>      1425m|                   #
>>      1267m|                   #
>>      1108m|                   #
>>       950m|                   #
>>       792m|     ########  # # ##   #                  # # #  # #
>>       633m|###################### ####################################
>>       475m|###################### ####################################
>>       316m|###################### ####################################
>>       158m|###################### ####################################
>>          0|###################### ####################################
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> seconds
>> 
>>      1590m|
>>      1431m|  *
>>      1272m|  *
>>      1113m|  *
>>       954m|  *
>>       795m|******
>>       636m|######*
>>       477m|######*
>>       318m|######*
>>       159m|#######
>>          0|######## *
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> minutes
>> 
>>          1|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> hours
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> qotom#show interfaces sd6 hwhistory
>>      1653m|
>>      1488m|                               #
>>      1322m|                               #
>>      1157m|                               #
>>       992m|                               #
>>       826m|  #   ####       ########  # # ##   #                  # #
>>       661m|################################## ########################
>>       496m|################################## ########################
>>       330m|################################## ########################
>>       165m|################################## ########################
>>          0|################################## ########################
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> seconds
>> 
>>      1660m|
>>      1494m|  *
>>      1328m|  *
>>      1162m|  *
>>       996m|  *
>>       830m|******
>>       664m|######*
>>       498m|######*
>>       332m|######*
>>       166m|#######
>>          0|############*######
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> minutes
>> 
>>          1|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>          0|
>>        bps|0---------10--------20--------30--------40--------50-------- 
>> hours
>> 
>> 
>> qotom#
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> top - 15:19:29 up 22 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.58, 0.48, 0.29
>> Tasks: 129 total,   1 running, 128 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> %Cpu0  : 11.5 us,  3.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 84.6 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu1  :  0.7 us,  2.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.9 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu2  : 22.2 us,  1.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 76.4 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu3  :  1.1 us,  0.7 sy,  0.0 ni, 98.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> MiB Mem :  15938.4 total,  14558.9 free,   1057.8 used,    321.8 buff/cache
>> MiB Swap:  16306.0 total,  16306.0 free,      0.0 used.  14598.9 avail Mem
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> top - 15:29:26 up 32 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.07, 0.52, 0.35
>> Tasks: 135 total,   2 running, 133 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> %Cpu0  : 14.9 us,  1.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 83.7 id,  0.3 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu1  :  0.3 us,  0.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.3 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu2  : 72.4 us,  4.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 23.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> %Cpu3  :  0.3 us,  0.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.7 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  
>> 0.0 st
>> MiB Mem :  15938.4 total,  14523.4 free,   1089.5 used,    325.6 buff/cache
>> MiB Swap:  16306.0 total,  16306.0 free,      0.0 used.  14566.8 avail Mem
>> 
>> 
>> <IMG_20200917_145530.jpg>
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