[Soekris] iperf and net4801

[Martin Johnson]

On 10 Jul 2007, at 14:34, Franck wrote:

> i've little problem with net4801 and network speed. With iperf, max  
> speed
> is 30bmps.
>
> sudo iperf -c 192.168.0.51 -i 3
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 10.1.1.251 port 56225 connected with 192.168.0.51 port  
> 5001
> [  3]  0.0- 3.0 sec  10.4 MBytes  29.0 Mbits/sec
> [  3]  3.0- 6.0 sec  10.4 MBytes  29.0 Mbits/sec
> [  3]  6.0- 9.0 sec  10.4 MBytes  29.0 Mbits/sec
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  34.6 MBytes  29.0 Mbits/sec
>
> I've bering-uclinux 3.0.2 on CF with shorewall for routing
>
> Is it possible to increase network speed because 30 Mbps is very  
> small :(
> Perhaps with sysctl ?

Just did a quick test.  I get identical results (29.4 Mbits/sec)  
under FreeBSD 6.2 (with pfSense).  But still plenty quick enough for  
my ADSL, and of course it is a lower-power processor.

The net5501 is faster: an earlier post to this list reported that the  
5501 could fill 100 Mbit Ethernet.

Cheers,

- Martin.