Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:37:59 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris Nehren <cnehren+freebsd-stable@pobox.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Subject: Re: Suggestions for low-power gigE firewall? Message-ID: <CAFHbX1%2BWKg3cDki5Peev=q0B-gxC1JrHMBARfNPJWO15kVGyGQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSspb6%2BA4v5=agzff=vHHNDtgQJ6GbRLmw6vOG1NUf6HCQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140613121732.GA61092@behemoth> <20140615090845.GB42502@server.rulingia.com> <CAFHbX1K0D%2B0KCeZdU1wm5DiFv4E_FsuR6QwFAsLUrdg4RdiUcg@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSspb6%2BA4v5=agzff=vHHNDtgQJ6GbRLmw6vOG1NUf6HCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote: > Without knowing the exact cabling arrangement, have you considered buying a > small switch that understands vlan? Then you could do some trickery with > that to have your server elsewhere (with just one ethernet cable)? Networking is not really my thing, so I'm going to read up some more on that - it sounds promising. I've probably got my thinking wrong on this, but would the result of putting lan and wan traffic down a single cable limit the upload and download to a cumulative 1 Gbit/s from a LAN client's viewpoint? > We haven't done any testing of the different NAT solutions available so I > can't give any specific numbers there. But I don't think it will help > throughput, especially old school natd in userspace. > > A colleague of mine also has 1Gbit/s home, and he hade to tweak the settings > and buy a decent intel card to get 900+Mbit/s on his old dell entry level > desktop. I would use pf to do the nat; it's what I used with ADSL - perhaps that is even slower, but fine for 8 Mbit. I've got plenty of cheap intel (em) cards, they've worked quite well as clients so far without any tuning on 10. I don't use torrents or things like that, but do download large files from time to time. The quickest I've clocked one of them downloaded is 87 MB/s, which I guess is roughly 700 Mbit/s, but I've no idea of the overheads. Certainly with iperf between each BSD machine on the LAN I can get a reading of 900+ Mbit/s. Cheers Tom
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