[Soekris] Net 4801 performance

[Wayne Lee]

I'm seeing the same using voyage linux and shorewall

20Mbit with shorewall
35Mbit without shorewall


Wayne




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "farlies" <farlies at gmail.com>
To: <Soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Net 4801 performance


> 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)?
> 
> # Farlies
> 
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