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      teleweb
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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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        cmb
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        I haven't tried yet, but others have reported 100 Mb wire speed.

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          razor2000
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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

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            ChiefBootKnocka
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            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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              naughtyusmaximus
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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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                ChiefBootKnocka
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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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                  naughtyusmaximus
                  last edited by

                  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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                    mlabenda
                    last edited by

                    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 pptp

                    I'm on a Alix 2c2

                    Microsoft gives you "Windows"
                    Opensource gives you the whole house

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                      philkry
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                      @razor2000:

                      ….

                      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 lan

                      any hints how i could improve my speed?

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