Soekris net6501-50 (1ghz) and 300mbit possible?
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As the subject says, should this be possible?
I've been running pfsense for a good long while, but it seems as though my hardware can't handle the load after a recent upgrade to 300mbit WAN.
Are there any performance tweaks I could perform?As it is now, it peaks at 280mbit, but mostly stays at around 250 with cpuload at around 95-100%.
I've tried just setting up a pc and restoring a backup from the Soekris on it, and that gives me 300+mbit, so as I see it, it shouldn't be my connection or setup.
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Do you have any packages installed? If not, that sounds like you've hit the limit of the box.
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I'm using pfblockerng, but disabling it doesn't give a noticable difference
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Then that is about what you can do with a 1GHz Atom single-core CPU.
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Thought so.
Soekris aren't coming out with a new one till Q2, so guess I'll build me a custom PC using a Supermicro X10SBA-L. It should have sufficient power I think, and Intel NICs ;)Thanks for the replies :)
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I'd suggest one of the C2xx8-series Atom's instead.
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For performance reasons or powerconsumption?
I've eyed those too, but then I eyed the price and settled on the other one :PI'm not cheap though, so if there's a technical reason for doing it, I'll grab one of the more expensive ones.
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ECC RAM, i354 NICs, and QuickAssist.
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Fair enough. I see the reasons for those features, but it's not really something I need at home. Not at 2-3 times the cost.
I've ordered this instead: http://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/mini-itx/sys-e200-8b.cfm