Hi Can you give some real world through put? How much can you push through it from a NATâet device? And what is the device stats when doing so?
Best, Lysemise From: Christian Weisgerber Sent: 15. april 2016 18:19 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Quick APU2 review I bought a PC Engines APU2 this week and thought I'd write up my impressions. TL;DR: Recommended. The obvious point of reference is the Soekris net6501. Now, that comparison isn't really fair since the net6501 is several years old and the APU2 is a new design. Then again, Soekris canceled their successor model (after stringing along potential customers for a year), so they're without a competitive product now. Tough for them. http://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm https://soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html Here's what the APU2 lacks: It has only three Ethernet ports instead of four, no front-side Ethernet LEDs, no PCI-Express expansion slot, no LOM. On the plus side, it has two USB 3.0 ports instead of a single USB 2.0 one. Performance: Single-core speed of the APU2 seems to be comparable to the net6501-70 (the fast model), but the APU2 has four cores instead of two and it has AES-NI, which provides a big boost for many crypto applications. A "make -j4 build" took exactly 120 minutes. Heat: The APUs have an innovative design where the CPU heat sink is coupled to the case. Since this is typically assembled by the customer, a lot of attention is drawn to it and people obsess over the CPU temperature. It's a nonissue. Case temperature is about the same as for the net6501, where people are far less concerned, even a "make -j4 build" didn't raise the CPU temperature much (57C to 64.5C), and the design ensures good heat flow. Ask me again in six months how it did in a 33C summer environment, but I expect no problems whatsoever. The firmware is still being worked on; it's cobbled together from coreboot, a MemTest86 module (takes about 1h45 for one pass on the apu2c4), and iPXE. It works. I've booted via PXE, from an external USB key, and from mSATA. Miscellaneous: The case is really compact. The order of the Ethernet ports is reversed when compared to the Soekris and not marked on the case. And yes, the APU2 is fully supported by OpenBSD 5.9. Overall, I like it a lot. Compared to the net6501, the APU2 is much cheaper and more powerful. Compared to Intel Rangeley devices, it is readily available in small quantities (like, one) and, to pick the one that you can easily buy, again much cheaper than the RCC-VE 2440. My APU2 is serving as my home gateway now, replacing a net6501. It feels good to be running an AMD CPU again. :-) PS: I bought mine from NRG Systems GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, who sell convenient board/case/PSU/SSD kits. Board and case were already assembled. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
