Earlier today I had to find out what the capacity of a soekris net4801 running openwrt.
Using a fairly normal rule set, it can forward 51.8 Mbits/sec which is alright for a 266 MHz processor.
Sadly for me, we’ll be getting a 100 Mbit fiber optic connection at work in a few months, so I guess I’ll have to move to a net5501 unit in order to max out the connection.
Output from iperf -s (second run is over the lan):
------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local x port 5001 connected with x port 64183 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 61.7 MBytes 51.7 Mbits/sec [ 5] local x port 5001 connected with x port 64184 [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 921 Mbits/sec
Output from iperf -c:
------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to x, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 129 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local x port 64183 connected with x port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 61.7 MBytes 51.8 Mbits/sec