@BlueKobold:
If the pppoe is really and only running on only one CPU core it might be perhaps then also really
impressive what this small Atom based 8 Core CPU is delivering here in this test.
Agreed. It's both disappointing that with PPPoE I cant get 1gb, but it is impressive to see that one of it's cores is pretty capable.
For sure there is then mostly also coming on top the application overhead and this might be different
from each OS to others for sure. You can also try out a IPFire, OpenWRT, SmoothWall or ZeroShell
and do this test once more again, then you will be sure this is not related to the used hardware, this
C2758 board is really fast and powerful.because this operating systems are not coming with the one
core problem on pppoe beside!
Yeah. I'm pretty content with pfsense and my 700-750mbit/s :)
I've been doing alot of playing around, and the fastest i've gotten from the other end has generally been 200-250mbit/s :) So my connection is rarely a bottleneck. hehe.
I would like to play with different things, but I don't have extra hardware sitting around, or time to install different OSes on my router to test out. Since this is the primarily router running the network for my entire house (and just about everything my wife and kids do is internet related) someone would kill me if our network was on and off alot.
Would be nice to hear from you what you got with another installed system that is not
coming with an multicore usage problem. But on the other hand an Atom Core is an Atom Core
and if peoples will be able to route 1 GBit/s on WAN with SPI & NAT also, only using other CPUs
it would be more tend then on the "small" Atom CPU Core, as I see it right, but with more electric
power consuming.
Intel Celeron J1900 @2,4GHz
Intel Celeron G3260 @3,2GHz
Intel Core i3 and Core i5 CPUs (not the smallest ones please)
Intel Xeon E3-12xx v3/v4 Dual or Quad Core CPU
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPUs
So if this problem would be solved out you will be happy with this C2758 as I see it right
because they are working on it, because they are selling the boards that are based on the same SoC.
I'm not sure if you remember, but i commented on something similar on the build thread for this particular router build. I was getting 930+mb/s up and down between a host on the WAN interface and a host on the LAN interface. So when PPPoE is NOT in play, and it's simply routing traffic, absolutely this build will route gigabit NAT speeds.
I'm actually thinking of buyinga /29 just so I can switch PPPoE to the centurylink provided router and reconfigure pfsense to just do routing through one of the external /29 ip addresses. But realy, it's silly to pay $20/month US, just to be able to get a speedtest score showing 930Mbits vs 700-750 :)
I had a /29 with my comcast business line, but only reason why I needed that was I didn't want to deal with the hassle of a DMZ and also dynamic DNS.
pfsense makes both a firewalled off DMZ interface and dynnamic DNS updates super easy.