Re: Dead ports [Re: config(5) break down]

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:23:35PM +0000, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> 
> Last time I bought a cavium board it was >$5k USD... An Octeon 3850
> was $700 for 1521 piece part... I didn't think they had anything
> reasonable down below $500?  (and as far as I remember, they already
> had FreeBSD running on the Octeons).  Admittedly it's been a few 
> years.

Cavium and Raza (Now "NetLogic") both have low-core-count parts in
the way sub-$100 price range.  Same basic architecture as the big
parts (these aren't their cut-down 32-bit parts), just less cores and
less goodies.

Even the very bottom of the line parts typically still have multiple
GigE interfaces on them and various other highly useful stuff.

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Thor Lancelot Simon                                    
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