On 20 October 2014 16:20, Flávio Silveira <f...@terra.com.br> wrote: > > 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. >
Actually it's hard to use it's full capability :) Most people have below 100Mbps connections. Well.. they are not advertised as home routers though... Regards, Roman _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
