[FROG] Question

[Lou Berger]

On 1/1/2019 6:27 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Lou Berger wrote:
>
>> I just ordered a GL.iNet GL-B1300 ($80USD) to replace a totally ancient
>> WRT54 (been running the same kernel since 2007!).  I'm hoping to push 1G
>> through it, but it certainly will be better than the ~35M I get now!
>>
>> Let me know if interested in the results and I'll unicast.
> I doubt you'd get more than 300-500 megabit/s of large packets using
> regular Linux kernel forwarding on that platform.

While I certainly expected you to be right -- it's forwarding a 1G w NAT 
-- basically the out of the box config!  It allso does >500M on wifi 5G 
(~1M air gap;-)


>> For higher performance, someone (David?) mentioned
>> 	https://www.solid-run.com/product-tag/clearcloud-8k/
>>
>> which has some very interesting performance results for something
>> costing ~$500USD:
>>
>> https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/download/attachments/327837/DP%20Benchmarking%20on%20Arm.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1522172087000&api=v2
> This is with VPP or similar.
understood -- This is okay for me.
> In my tests Marvell 8040 platform will do ~4
> gigabit/s of Linux kernel forwarding (unidirectional and large packets)
> since all packets are handled by a single CPU core.
>
> I am using WRT1200AC (Marvell armada 385 based) which is one of the best
> devices I have been able to find for running for instance OpenWrt and
> doing gig speeds with AQM. If you don't need AQM, then MT7621 based
> devices now have hardware flowoffload in OpenWrt 18.06 which means it'll
> do 1 gig unidirectional (unfortunately most of the hardware seems to be
> single gig port towards the SoC so you never get more than in+out=1 gig.

Thanks for the info!