Darren Tucker [dtuc...@zip.com.au] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > > Why not just get a Soekris 5501 or a similar PC Engines ALIX, > > +1 for the ALIX (I've got two alix2d3 and have been very happy with them) > > > they can do 100Mbps with the improved vr ethernet driver these days. > > Have you been able to get more than 85Mbit/s out of a single interface > on an ALIX? 85 was the best I could get when playing the tx interrupt > mitigation stuff[1] but it had plenty of spare CPU. My guess was it > was maxing out the NIC hardware, and that turning off checksum > offloading would make it go faster at the cost of more CPU usage > although I never tested that. > > [1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130201054156 >
Your're right, I didn't reach a full 100Mbps, although I recall getting 90+ on file transfers to local MFS, with cksum enabled. I won't swear to that ;)
