[Soekris] Net 4801 performance

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schule wrote:
> When I up, or download a file (~60MB iso) per ftp, I get only
> ~850 kb/sec throughput.
> I tried OpenBSD as well, and I get about 870kb/sec.
> 
> That seems a bit to little to me.
> 
> On the monowall website they speak of about 50mb/sec(with FeeBSD 4.11),
> so I expected a little more.
> 
> How much throughput do you get with your net4801?

I've been using "iperf" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf)
to test my 4801 on an unloaded 100BT LAN and have also been a
bit surprised by lower throughput than expected.  The best I
have been able to get out of OpenBSD 3.9 is ~21 MBit; this is
with pf disabled, and window size 256k. Throughput between
a pair of Linux/Dell desktops over the same wiring is ~93 Mbit.

This test may be probing a different boundary that Schule's,
but I would be interested if anyone has wrung more performance
out of the 4801 interfaces (National DP83816)?

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