[FROG] Question

[Donald Sharp]

It looks like we have enough interest it might be useful for someone
to start putting together a FAQ/Install guide for small form factor
PC's and running FRR on them.  Is there any interest in the community
for someone to write this?

donald

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:41 PM Lou Berger <lberger at labn.net> wrote:
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> On 1/1/2019 6:27 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, Lou Berger wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> 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;-)
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> >> 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.
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> Thanks for the info!
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