From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 11:32:49 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 A3C2E16A430 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:32:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au) Received: from smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au [210.50.30.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FCA43D46 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:32:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au) Received: by smtp01.syd.iprimus.net.au (7.2.072.1) id 440C44E500A496E1; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:32:24 +1100 Received: from [192.168.20.142] by cpms02.int.iprimus.net.au with HTTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:32:22 +1100 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:32:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4429597200002A3B@cpms02.int.iprimus.net.au> In-Reply-To: <442B66AF.30803@alphaque.com> From: johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au To: "Dinesh Nair" , "Mike Tancsa" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 11:32:49 -0000 Thanks for all the excellent replies to this question. Dinesh's answer looks like exactly what I'm experiencing. Unfortunately I can't use FreeBSD 4, because I don't think FASTIPSEC with the HiFn card is supported there. I tried with OpenBSD 3.8 and got similar performance to FreeBSD. I might try NetBSD in the weekend, someone mentioned that, and it's probably a good idea. Oh well, at the moment we've only got a 2Mbit link anyway, so they should suffice for a couple of years. Regards John Ryan >-- Original Message -- >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:03:43 +0800 >From: Dinesh Nair >To: Mike Tancsa >CC: johnryan_852@iprimus.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Soekris Net4801 performance > > > > >On 03/30/06 09:28 Mike Tancsa said the following: >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19:25 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions >> you wrote: >>>ftp put is around 3Mbytes/sec and ftp get is around 2Mbytes/sec >>>ifconfig says: > >> 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. > >m0n0wall, a freebsd based router/firewall project is built for both the >soekris net45xx and net48xx boxes. m0n0wall 1.2 is based on freebsd 4.x and > >m0n0wall 1.3 (which i'm currently maintaining) is based on freebsd 6.x. >we've seen clear degradation of network throughput between m0n0 1.2 and >1.3. we usually use iperf for throughput testing with the m0n0wall sitting > >in between. search the m0n0wall lists for past throughput comparisons. > >[1] http://m0n0.ch/wall/ > >-- >Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." >dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ >+==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ >| for a in past present future; do > | >| for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do > | >| echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." > | >| done; done > | >+=========================================================================+