[Soekris] Atheros maxes out CPU at 24Mb/s on net4801

Flemming Frandsen ff-soekris at partyticket.net
Fri Jun 1 22:30:07 UTC 2007


Eric Lammerts wrote:
> Do you have iptables enabled in your kernel? I found that the connection 
> tracking (which it will do even if you don't actually have any iptables 
> rules) takes quite some CPU time on my boards (4826).

Yes and I need iptables, but I get 50Mb/s if I iperf to a server running 
on the 4801 from ethernet, which should be a whole lot better if I could 
be bothered to run iperf on another box and only let the 4801 do routing 
for that test (just like I did for the wireless test).

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