From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 01:28:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFC216A401 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:28:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D3943D45 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:28:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4P/8.13.4) with SMTP id k2U1S2Dt030966; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:28:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:28:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <44295972000015BC@cpms02.int.iprimus.net.au> In-Reply-To: <44295972000015BC@cpms02.int.iprimus.net.au> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soekris Net4801 performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:28:05 -0000 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19:25 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you 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=20 > >ftp put is around 3Mbytes/sec and ftp get is around 2Mbytes/sec >ifconfig says: >sis0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 > options=3D8 > 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 ) > status: active > >Has anyone got any experience with these machines and any advice? They are not the fastest around, but it depends what you want to do with them. On an older 4501, I get about 7Mb. You should be able to get that at least. [vpn1]% fetch -o /dev/null http://lava.sentex.ca/wifi.mpg /dev/null 53% of 84 MB 769 kBps 00m52s^C fetch: transfer interrupted [vpn1]% Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4/Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU) Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0x494 Stepping =3D 4 Features=3D0x1 real memory =3D 67108864 (64 MB) avail memory =3D 60416000 (57 MB) npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard sysctl machdep.i8254_freq=3D1189161 returns 0 [vpn1]% uname -a =46reeBSD vpn1.sentex.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Mar 12 16:42:17 EST 2006 mdtancsa@tyan-1u.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/usr/src/sys/nano i386 [vpn1]% ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)