{"id":931,"date":"2023-04-03T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/?p=931"},"modified":"2025-01-31T20:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:08:30","slug":"1-system-4-nodes-8-nics-and-800gbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Snake Test: 4 Nodes @ 800Gbps = 25.6 Tbps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Network team took our traffic generator so we needed to build our own using (4) servers with (8) 100G NIC&#8217;s. Here is the design I came up with to build our own &#8220;home brew&#8221; traffic generator used to saturate the switches while stress testing them in the thermal chamber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Snake-Test-Layout.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Snake-Test-Layout.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2eb915e1-7e9a-4794-ac59-67364b20a18f\" href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Snake-Test-Layout.pdf\">Snake-Test-Layout<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Snake-Test-Layout.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2eb915e1-7e9a-4794-ac59-67364b20a18f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>8 x 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