Hi Harald,

thanks for your reply, I will perform more tests later about the bandwidth.
The very big problem is unfortunately the second: the packet loss on the
second LAN port.

Bye bye.
Andrea

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Harald Schiƶberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> Andrea Tassi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm testing the latest OpenWrt trunk revision on my new UBNT
> > RouterStation. I have discovered two problems:
> >
> > 1) I have tested the WAN port bandwidth with Iperf:
> >    [  3]  0.0- 2.0 sec  7.08 MBytes  29.7 Mbits/sec
> >    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> >    [  3]  2.0- 4.0 sec  7.04 MBytes  29.5 Mbits/sec
> >    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> >    [  3]  4.0- 6.0 sec  7.02 MBytes  29.4 Mbits/sec
> >    [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> >    [  3]  6.0- 8.0 sec  7.02 MBytes  29.4 Mbits/sec
> > as you can see the Bandwidth is ~29.5Mbits/sec and not ~100Mbits/sec.
> > Is it normal??
>
> I don't personaly know the ubqn hardware, but
> that's what I'd expect from one of the older 200-300 Mhz mips devices
> (wl500, wrt54, ...), not from a 600+ Mhz cpu. If I where to guess, I'd
> say it should be arround 60 mbit.. Still I have not seen any mips based
> hardware that delivers 100mbit routing performance. Alix and
> avila/cambria are afaik the only openwrt devices that can do it.
>
> You can check whether there are any stateful firewall rules in place
> (especially NAT) , those significantly degrade performance.
>
> Also switching on support for ebtables (filtering on the software
> bridges) is known to degrade performance. This is afaik true even if the
> module is not used, but just selected in the kernel config.
>
> What is the frame size of your iperf, was it measured with 1500 byte
> frames, or something smaller?
>
> Did you measure routing, or did you measure with iperf running on the
> device? If you run iperf on the device, than this would be a really good
> value, since this is way slower than routing.
>
> so long
>        harald
>
>
> > 2) the LAN interface next to the WAN port has the same problem. The
> > other port works but it has a very unstable behaviour: if I ping the
> > RouterStation through a cable direct connected to the board I have a
> > packet loss very height!!
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks
> > Andrea
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