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There's 10000's of SmartNICs based on this CPU that are being obsoleted at various cloud providers. | There's 10000's of SmartNICs based on this CPU that are being obsoleted at various cloud providers. | ||
They're very cheap to obtain, I've seen them as low as $6 for a 25G model with 16Cores/16GB Ram, and even the more expensive offers are a good value. | They're very cheap to obtain, I've seen them as low as $6 for a 25G model with 16Cores/16GB Ram, and even the more expensive offers are a good value. | ||
### Good models are: | |||
- CN6640 (Dual/Quad 10G, 12 Core?, 8/16GB via DDR3 SODIMM) | |||
- CN2300/CN7322 (Dualport 10G / Dualport 25G, 12 / 16 Core, 16GB) | |||
- CN7890 (Dualport 40G, 24/32 Core, 32GB) | |||
#### architecture revival feasible | |||
Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers. | Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers. | ||
The only holdup is the sparse documentation and if we just have a clear warning then it should be hopefully OK to keep all the traces of this architecture support around? | The only holdup is the sparse documentation and if we just have a clear warning then it should be hopefully OK to keep all the traces of this architecture support around? | ||
#### Other use | |||
To be clear, the cards work in Alpine as normal 25G NICs, but it would be a lot more fun to also run Alpine ON them. | |||
Revision as of 17:14, 9 November 2024
- Please keep
Hi,
please, please, please don't delete the page or the archived binaries etc.
There's 10000's of SmartNICs based on this CPU that are being obsoleted at various cloud providers. They're very cheap to obtain, I've seen them as low as $6 for a 25G model with 16Cores/16GB Ram, and even the more expensive offers are a good value.
- Good models are:
- CN6640 (Dual/Quad 10G, 12 Core?, 8/16GB via DDR3 SODIMM) - CN2300/CN7322 (Dualport 10G / Dualport 25G, 12 / 16 Core, 16GB) - CN7890 (Dualport 40G, 24/32 Core, 32GB)
- architecture revival feasible
Once enough of them have leaked out, it will be very feasible for the community to contribute and revive the port. As such it is a really nice tinkering platform, and in some sense it's even more open, or at least more open to be investigated than the easier to obtain alternatives like Ubiquiti routers.
The only holdup is the sparse documentation and if we just have a clear warning then it should be hopefully OK to keep all the traces of this architecture support around?
- Other use
To be clear, the cards work in Alpine as normal 25G NICs, but it would be a lot more fun to also run Alpine ON them.