On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:19:00 +0200 Mark Patruck <m...@wrapped.cx> wrote:
> I also get around 6MB/s when using the Alix 2c3 as a simple > router. Problem seems to be the combination... > > vr2 -> vlan7 (vlandev vr2) -> pppoe0 (dev vlan7) vr + vlan makes me think of this: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=136042402201839&w=2 > I also don't thing the Alix is too slow. As i said...50.000kbit/s > down via pppoe0 works w/o issues. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:10:39PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:23:36PM +0200, Mark Patruck wrote: > > > I'm running 5.6-current on a Alix 2c3. The box is connected > > > via pppoe(4) and VDSL 50Mbit down/10Mbit up - max-mss is set > > > to 1440. > > > > > > Running a few speed tests, i get almost always > 50.000kbit/s > > > down, but not more than 400-600kbit/s up. > > > > > > Just for testing purposes, i started httpd(8) and tried to > > > download a 1MB test file over the internet from another machine. > > > > > > $ ftp http://1.2.3.4/test1MB > > > Trying 1.2.3.4... > > > Requesting http://1.2.3.4/test1MB > > > > > > After about 8 seconds it shows 128KB, then...few seconds later... > > > --stalled--....few seconds later 256KB....--stalled--.... > > > > > > 65 seconds later, the download has finished. > > > > > > The same configuration (freshly installed OpenBSD 5.6-current) on > > > another Alix 2c3 shows exactly the same issues...download fine, > > > upload < 600kbit/s. > > > > > > Just to make sure there is nothing wrong with cabling, VDSL modem, > > > i tried the same configuration on an older Celeron laptop with > > > ale(4) nic...no issues at all. I get around 8.000kbit/s. > > > > > > Any clues? (vr(4) issues?) > > > > I don't think vr(4) is your problem. > > From a net5501 soekris (similar hardware) I can download 6 megabytes > > per second of a file on the soekris' hard disk via a LAN-facing > > vr(4) interface, served over HTTP with nginx (on 5.6-stable). > > > > You could run measurements with tcpbench(1) to rule out problems > > at the network/driver layer. In my testing an Alix.2d2 lx800 > > (running 5.6-stable too) is slightly faster with tcpbench (Avg > > Mbps: 92.490) than the net5501 (Avg Mbps: 86.949), both using vr(4) > > interfaces connected to a gigabit switch. > > > > Perhaps it's worth mentioning that the vr(4) interfaces are part > > of a bridge(4). I'm not sure if that affects throughput but if > > it does plain vr(4) interfaces could be faster. > > > > -- > Mark Patruck ( mark at wrapped.cx ) > GPG key 0xF2865E51 / 187F F6D3 EE04 1DCE 1C74 F644 0D3C F66F F286 > 5E51 > > http://www.wrapped.cx > -- http://gmerlin.de OpenPGP: http://gmerlin.de/christopher.pub F190 D013 8F01 AA53 E080 3F3C F17F B0A1 D44E 4FEE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
