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Subject: Re: Suggestions for low-power gigE firewall?
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> > Any suggestions?
>
> ALIX apu1c may be an alternative:
> http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
>
> The board is a bit cheaper - $145/$160, according to
> http://www.pcengines.ch/order1.php?c=4
> The downside is that it's got Realtek RTL8111E NICs.
>
>
What do you mean by a "GigE firewall" ?
Using only jumbo frame, lot's of hardware will be able to fill the Gb/s
bandwitdh... but Internet traffic is not composed of only large packets.

I confirm for a "home usage", the PC Engines APU can manage up to 154Kpps
(about 437Mbs/s of IMIX) in routing and 114Kpps (about 324Mb/s of IMIX)
with ipfw.
But... 154Kpps is far from the line-rate gigabit (1.48Mpps).

FreeBSD bench of the PC Engines APU here:
http://bsdrp.net/documentation/examples/forwarding_performance_lab_of_a_pc_engines_apu

Regards,

Olivier