[Soekris] Throughput for various models?

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:37 -0500, Bill Borton wrote:
> I picked up a couple of net4501s for use as time servers and am pretty darn
> impressed with them.  I'd like to get a couple more and use them as simple
> router/firewalls running NanoBSD.  A quick throughput test with iperf only
> gives me ~14 Mbits/s without fastforwarding and ~39 Mbits/s with. (~94 
> Mbits/s through just the switch.)
> 
> Do these numbers look correct for a net4501?  Can anyone give me some idea as
> to what to expect with other models?  I'm thinking about the 4801 and 5501.

As a point of reference, I only get 10mbps from LAN to WAN, through NAT
and firewall rules, on a 4501 running m0n0wall.  I haven't seriously
pressed the 5501 yet, but it feels much faster.