On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Blaise Hizded <bla...@ovh.fr> wrote: > > I run the previous generation ALIX 2D13 with OpenBSD 5.6 on it for a > home firewall with 10MB WAN broadband and 100MB between computers. > All is fine: low temperature, low consumption, same speed as with a > basic 100MBB switch. >
I spent some time tuning the vr(4) driver on ALIX a while back[1], and in my experience the throughput maxes out at around 85 Mbit/s of TCP (ie iperf) traffic through it. I don't know what the limiting factor is, but it's not CPU. My guess is it's the checksum offload hardware in the chips, in which case doing those in software would be faster at the cost of using more CPU, but I never tested this theory. [1] http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130201054156 -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
