On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:32:31PM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote: > Joe S wrote: > > Be careful with Soekris. While DSL speed is stuck at 1.5 MB for you, > > many users are getting 6MB and higher is some parts of the world. It > > would not be advantageous to buy something like a soekris and grow out > > of it in 2 years when your ISP gets around to offering REAL speeds. > Has anyone ever actually pushed a Soekris all out to see when it begins > to choke? If so, where did it/they top out? It's great to remind us > yanks that our residential broadband sucks compared to EUR and asia, but > as you say, we'll catch up eventually. >
It maxes out at around 50Mbps doing just forwarding (no filtering). And this is with a 4801 (the "fastest" soekris (266MHz)). I don't think that better interfaces matter that much. The HW seems to max out around 10-12k interrupts per second (forwarding 5000 packets/sec). Perhaps you can reduce the number of interrupts with fxp(4) that do interrupt mitigation but I did not test it. -- :wq Claudio
