[frzen]

I really enjoyed that writeup. I wonder has anyone played with DPUs in a similar way? I have been trying to think of how to hairpin traffic through some standalone DPUs like an nvidia bluefield or pensando. To make my own >100G east west stateful firewall for a small fraction of the cost of a real option.

Switch like OPs with all traffic passing to and from a DPU to make a poor man's Aruba CX10000

[wmf]

Bluefield can also run regular Linux distros and it can run standalone without a host (but you have to power it somehow). https://www.servethehome.com/zfs-without-a-server-using-the-...

All other DPUs seem to be NDA-encrusted.