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ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; 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 19:01:16 -0000 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