Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:01:04 -0400 From: Mark Moellering <markmoellering@psyberation.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD Mips/Octeon Message-ID: <52c0e639-a8a5-8474-5810-8c95d3c1f3d0@psyberation.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004091323370.28475@otaku.sdf.org> References: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004091323370.28475@otaku.sdf.org>
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On 4/9/20 7:32 AM, Viktor Madarasz wrote: > Hi > > i was looking at the page > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/mips/Octeon?action=show&redirect=FreeBSD%2Fmips%2FOcteon > > > where amongst other things mentioned Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite as > compatible and also that Gigabit speeds on Basic Packet passing should > be OK. > > I started to look at classifieds and I see some devices available for > grabs. > > However I came across this article where the user explains one of the > drawbacks being not being able to push more than 250Mbit per second > between two Gigabit Hosts. However that article was not made on the > latest available build as far as I see... > > http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/ > > Question: > > Anyone has experience with Edgerouter Lite and FreeBSD and can comment > on the real time performance achieved? > > Perhaps one of the other mentioned HW would be more suitable to go for > ( even if it seems difficult to even find any.. Lanner , Portwell and > Radisys devices ) > > Perhaps going the x86 route and pick up some appliance from Aliexpress > which should work as a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD router/firewall and > achieve Gigabit speed on ports while passing packets easily/easier? > > f.e : > https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32860646292.html?spm=2114.12057483.0.0.1f2b5af1TD1IWP > > Regards > > Viktor > > viktormadarasz@sdf.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I put OpenBSD on an EdgeRouter Lite and it didn't do so well. From what I understand, there are linux kernel modules needed to get speed out of the EdgeRouter Lite; In any case, I did not get a really good throughput. I got an EdgeRouter 4 and things worked much better. -- Mark
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