On 14/03/2010, at 10:36 AM, P. Souza wrote: >> Has anyone tested the network throughput on these sweet little things? > > Not that relevant but I thought I'd share my findings anyway. > According to some page I found(TM), the RB600 measured about 250 Mbps > on iperf on both debian and routerOS[1]. > > I was expecting more since the routerboard performance tests[2] show a > routing performance between 592-745 Mbps with 1500 byte packets. Even > so, seems like a nice alix substitute since, at least locally, the > price difference is negligible.
there's a big difference between forwarding and terminating traffic on a box which could explain those numbers. still, how openbsd copes will be different again.
