From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Apr 9 19:53:36 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63EF27CF2A for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG) Received: from mx.sdf.org (mx.sdf.org [205.166.94.20]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mx.sdf.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48ysJv1V4Zz4BVw for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG) Received: from otaku.sdf.org (IDENT:viktormadarasz@otaku.sdf.org [205.166.94.8]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 039JrWH7022356 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:53:33 GMT Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:53:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Viktor Madarasz To: Mark Moellering cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD Mips/Octeon In-Reply-To: <52c0e639-a8a5-8474-5810-8c95d3c1f3d0@psyberation.com> Message-ID: References: <52c0e639-a8a5-8474-5810-8c95d3c1f3d0@psyberation.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48ysJv1V4Zz4BVw X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG has no SPF policy when checking 205.166.94.20) smtp.mailfrom=viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.17 / 15.00]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14361, ipnet:205.166.94.0/24, country:US]; IP_SCORE(-0.24)[ip: (-0.75), ipnet: 205.166.94.0/24(-0.37), asn: 14361(-0.01), country: US(-0.05)]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.86)[-0.860,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.975,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[SDF.ORG]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[20.94.166.205.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:53:36 -0000 Hi Mark You did better results with an Edgerouter 4 with its stock Ubiquity OS or putting OpenBSD on that one as well? Viktor On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Mark Moellering wrote: > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:01:04 -0400 > From: Mark Moellering > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD > Mips/Octeon > > > On 4/9/20 7:32 AM, Viktor Madarasz wrote: >> Hi >> >> i was looking at the page >> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/mips/Octeon?action=show&redirect=FreeBSD%2Fmips%2FOcteon >> >> where amongst other things mentioned Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite as compatible >> and also that Gigabit speeds on Basic Packet passing should be OK. >> >> I started to look at classifieds and I see some devices available for >> grabs. >> >> However I came across this article where the user explains one of the >> drawbacks being not being able to push more than 250Mbit per second between >> two Gigabit Hosts. However that article was not made on the latest >> available build as far as I see... >> >> http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/ >> >> Question: >> >> Anyone has experience with Edgerouter Lite and FreeBSD and can comment on >> the real time performance achieved? >> >> Perhaps one of the other mentioned HW would be more suitable to go for ( >> even if it seems difficult to even find any.. Lanner , Portwell and Radisys >> devices ) >> >> Perhaps going the x86 route and pick up some appliance from Aliexpress >> which should work as a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD router/firewall and achieve >> Gigabit speed on ports while passing packets easily/easier? >> >> f.e : >> https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32860646292.html?spm=2114.12057483.0.0.1f2b5af1TD1IWP >> >> Regards >> >> Viktor >> >> viktormadarasz@sdf.org >> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I put OpenBSD on an EdgeRouter Lite and it didn't do so well. From what I > understand, there are linux kernel modules needed to get speed out of the > EdgeRouter Lite; In any case, I did not get a really good throughput.? I got > an EdgeRouter 4 and things worked much better. > > -- Mark > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > viktormadarasz@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org