Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:47:52 -0700 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports Message-ID: <CABx9NuQf1iE0_Y=vX0fC_o61t0-iku1vYmTAcFWSCEqsnw0H8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <07D27DD7-2434-4A2E-91CE-A05D12BBAC2A@netgate.com> References: <201709222206.QAA21968@mail.lariat.net> <07D27DD7-2434-4A2E-91CE-A05D12BBAC2A@netgate.com>
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com> wrote: > > What do you mean by =E2=80=9Ctrue gigabit=E2=80=9D? > > I=E2=80=99ve trivially done 939mbps over TCP / IPv4 (iperf3, even a brows= er-based Speedtest) on a couple different Armada 38x boards with the defaul= t pfSense ruleset =E2=80=9Con=E2=80=9D. Solid-Run makes one, we sell one. We make a custom product based on the Armada 38xx and it was measured at high 900 Mbps using a Buildroot Linux. I want to say 980 but the engineer who did the measurements is away so I can't confirm. I can't wait to get my hands on a netgate router. I had it all lined up for my tax return and then the clutch in my car died. :( https://www.netgate.com/products/sg-3100.html > Hell, even the little single core 600MHz OMAP / 2 Ethernet router we sell= will do 550mbps using pkt-gen without =E2=80=9Cpf=E2=80=9D running. loos@= did a huge amount of work on the NIC driver there. Same SoC family as > Beaglebone, and BBB is 1GHz. > > They won=E2=80=99t do 1.488Mpps though, that still wants an Intel box and= netmap-fwd. > > I do have the netmap code for the 38x though, so maybe soon... > > Jim > >> On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:06 AM, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> wrote: >> >> All: >> >> I've been working with several ARM-based boards, and have discovered tha= t many of them have "gigabit" Ethernet ports that actually cannot handle a = gigabit! (They tend to max out at around 300 Mbps; the fine print in the sp= ec sheets for some of them says that this is due to "bus limitations.") Any= recommendations for ARM-based SBCs or project computers that have at least= one (and preferably 2 or more) true gigabit Ethernet ports? >> >> --Brett Glass >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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