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Subject: Re: Soekris Net4801 performance
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--- johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au wrote:

> Hi, I've just bought 2 soekris net4801-60 boxes and am having trouble
> getting
> them to perform under FreeBSD.
> 
> They are on a 100Mbit network and the network works fine for other
> machines
> - FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
> 
> I've tried a custom kernel running FreeBSD 6.1 PRELEASE and a GENERIC
> kernel
> running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE.
> Custom kernel has
> options         CPU_GEODE 
> 
> ftp put is around 3Mbytes/sec and ftp get is around 2Mbytes/sec
> ifconfig says:
> sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 172.20.36.56 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 172.20.39.255
>         inet6 fe80::200:24ff:fec5:cf48%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         ether 00:00:24:c5:cf:48
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
> 
> Has anyone got any experience with these machines and any advice?

Yes.  I have two 4801 units and they work very well with OpenBSD 3.7
and 3.8.

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