[Soekris] Which distro gives best performance?

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:34:25PM +0100, wouter lists wrote:
 
> For the moment there are only 3 clients befind the 4801 and I don't
> think there will be any added for a while. Normal traffic is some web,
> mail, ftp, p2p. Most traffic is ftp download from our main office ftp
> server which has enough bandwidth.
> 
> I don't care if it's linux or a bsd. An (web)interface would be nice,
> but not necessary as the firewall rules only changed 2 times last
> year, I think there are only 10 rules right now.
> 
> Can the performance gurus give me some advice?

There is an interesting comparison of linux and the bsd's with respect
to pppoe transfer capacity, to be found here:
http://www.jraitala.net/comp/articles/2002/pppoe/

Note, that these tests were performed with a "clearly overpowered
server" - Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB of DDR RAM. For a soekris, hardware
may be the actual bottleneck in any case.

Cheers,
Jonathan