On 20/10/2014 09:24, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
On 20 October 2014 01:29, Flávio Silveira <f...@terra.com.br> wrote:
Good evening,
I've been told that this router is great only when using EdgeOS, because
of proprietary drivers and optimizations.
Is there anyone working on this router that can confirm this information?
Is there any benchmarks I could do and compare between OpenWRT and EdgeOS?
Yes, that's because of fastpath (aka hardware NAT).
Not so long ago I compared the performance. When fastpath is enabled
(e.g. EdgeOS) you get almost wire speed NAT (~900Mbps, TCP). Without
that I got ~270Mbps.
But the question is, do you really need wire speed NAT? If you do need
then you are probably not a SOHO user.
Anyway... I'm not aware of any open source implementations of fastpath
driver for octeon family. Maybe it's worth to start bugging cavium
itself or device manufacturers so they release at least reference
driver for fastpath :)
Regards,
Roman
I agree, they should release something in order to others have the
chance to implement it
It's not that I need that kind of throughput, but it's complicated to
not use the device at its full capability.
Thanks for the info Roman!
Best regards,
Flavio
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