topic Re: Anyone have experience with 40Gbit fiber cards for 15000/23000? in Firewall and Security Management https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7398#M347 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Tim.</P><P></P><P>I have performed a number of installations of 15000/23000s with these modules.</P><P>Nothing negative to report so far, but the appliances have not been under heavy load yet, (to the best of my knowledge).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:40:08 GMT Vladimir 2017-10-12T01:40:08Z Anyone have experience with 40Gbit fiber cards for 15000/23000? https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7397#M346 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>An option on the new 15000 and 23000 series appliances is a 4x10Gbit fiber card:</P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><P>4 Port 10GBase-F SFP+ interface card&nbsp; - CPAC-4-10F-B-INSTALL</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Does anyone have experience (good or bad) working with this relatively new NIC?&nbsp; Other than being mentioned in SecureKnowledge as the first non-Intel NICs to support multi-queue, there really isn't much other info available about them.&nbsp; I'm asking because these seem to be one of the very few non-Intel NIC cards that Check Point has made available for its appliances in recent years.&nbsp; It appears the manufacturer of these is Mellanox and the driver name displayed by <STRONG>ethtool -i</STRONG> is "mlx5_core".&nbsp; Thanks!</P><P></P><P>--<BR /> My book "Max Power: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization" <BR /> now available via <A href="http://maxpowerfirewalls.com" target="_blank">http://maxpowerfirewalls.com</A>.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:47:39 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7397#M346 Timothy_Hall 2017-10-11T19:47:39Z Re: Anyone have experience with 40Gbit fiber cards for 15000/23000? https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7398#M347 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Tim.</P><P></P><P>I have performed a number of installations of 15000/23000s with these modules.</P><P>Nothing negative to report so far, but the appliances have not been under heavy load yet, (to the best of my knowledge).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:40:08 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7398#M347 Vladimir 2017-10-12T01:40:08Z Re: Anyone have experience with 40Gbit fiber cards for 15000/23000? https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7399#M348 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hmm just found out that the optional 25G/100G fiber NICs for the 15000/23000 (which also appear to be manufactured by Mellanox), are not supported with SMT/Hyperthreading according to sk116742.&nbsp; Guess this means SMT/Hyperthreading is not supported with the 40G card either although I can't find anything specifically stating that.</P><P></P><P>Vladimir, do you have SMT/Hyperthreading enabled on the systems where you are using the 40G cards?&nbsp; Any chance you are using the 25G/100G cards too?</P><P></P><P>--<BR /> My book "Max Power: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization" <BR /> now available via <A href="http://maxpowerfirewalls.com" rel="nofollow">http://maxpowerfirewalls.com</A>.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:44:27 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7399#M348 Timothy_Hall 2017-10-16T14:44:27Z Re: Anyone have experience with 40Gbit fiber cards for 15000/23000? https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7400#M349 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hyperthreading was not enabled on the units with 4x10GBE.</P><P>And no, I didn’t get a chance to use the 100GBE(4x25GBE?) NICs.</P><P></P><P>You may also check the compatibility of these cards with the SSL accelerator module that was released this Summer that is being used in the same slots as NICs.</P><P></P><P>vlad@eversecgroup.com</P><P>+1.973.558.2738</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:03:13 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Anyone-have-experience-with-40Gbit-fiber-cards-for-15000-23000/m-p/7400#M349 Vladimir 2017-10-16T15:03:13Z