Alix boards throughput
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What would be the achieved throughput when using an alix (500mhz/256MB) board as a firewall (100Mbit WAN <-> 100Mbit LAN) ?
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I haven't tried yet, but others have reported 100 Mb wire speed.
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Just finished some testing and here are my results with netio:
TCP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 10370 KByte/s Tx, 10822 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 10396 KByte/s Tx, 10921 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 10574 KByte/s Tx, 10927 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 10567 KByte/s Tx, 11026 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 10596 KByte/s Tx, 11029 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 10613 KByte/s Tx, 11066 KByte/s Rx.
Done.So basically, it is going at close to 100 mbit wirespeed…. Amazing!
For those interested, the specs for the host and client used for the netio testing were:
host: Athlon 850 MHz with intel nic
client: Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz with intel nic -
My connection (100/10MBit/s) normally peaks at 80MBit/s downstream while simultaneously hitting the ceiling of 10Mbit/s upstream with appr. 2000 active states on an Alix2C3 running embedded 1.2-RC3. The numbers were more or less the same when running m0n0wall 1.3b5.
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Is there any chance you have the ALIX board running as an OpenVPN client and can test the throughput of that as well?
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@naughtyusmaximus: No, sorry. I'm currently not using it as a VPN client/terminator of any kind. I might in the future though, in case of which I'll post the info.
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Ok thank you
I've just ordered one which will be used as an OpenVPN client - if I get it set up before you I'll post my results ;)
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I have OpenVPN running on mine to connect road worriers
havn't done any troughput tests, but from just using it, it is way faster than ipsec or pptpI'm on a Alix 2c2
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So basically, it is going at close to 100 mbit wirespeed.... Amazing!
....i wonder how you managed to get such good speed.
i'm using my pfsense (1.2-rc4) at a vdsl line (50/10mbit) and can't get more than ~2MB/s downstream… as soon as i remove the pfsense i get 4,7MB/s
my setup is the following:
vdsl-modem -> isp-router -> 1st lan -> pfsense -> 2nd lanany hints how i could improve my speed?