[Soekris] Throughput for various models?

[Chris Buechler]

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.
>   

Looks right. With NAT and firewalling, a 4501 will get you around 10-15 
Mb depending on OS, packet filter and NAT used, and configuration.

4801 will get you more like 30 Mb. I don't have a 5501 to test, but 
supposedly they can do at or near 100 Mb wire speed, from what I've heard.