Re: Tinc performance on a Dir-300

2010-09-20 Thread Julian Bäume
moin, Am Montag, 20. September 2010, 16:37:03 schrieb Clemens John: we are using Tinc in our Freifunk Network in Oldenburg for internode connections over the internet. So Tinc is running on OpenWrt 10.03 on Dlink Dir-300 Routers. We all have enough internet bandwith (1,6 MB/sec and more) but

Re: Tinc performance on a Dir-300

2010-09-20 Thread Donald Pearson
That device uses the Atheros AR2317 processor which isn't exactly robust at 180Mhz. Have you considered alternative hardware? On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Clemens John clemens-j...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, we are using Tinc in our Freifunk Network in Oldenburg for internode connections over

Re: Tinc performance on a Dir-300

2010-09-20 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 04:37:03PM +0200, Clemens John wrote: we are using Tinc in our Freifunk Network in Oldenburg for internode connections over the internet. So Tinc is running on OpenWrt 10.03 on Dlink Dir-300 Routers. We all have enough internet bandwith (1,6 MB/sec and more) but we

Re: Tinc performance on a Dir-300

2010-09-20 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Guus Sliepen g...@tinc-vpn.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 04:37:03PM +0200, Clemens John wrote: we are using Tinc in our Freifunk Network in Oldenburg for internode connections over the internet. So Tinc is running on OpenWrt 10.03 on Dlink Dir-300

Re: ProcessPriority=high breaks tinc from starting

2010-09-20 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:33:00PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: On Fedora 11 (yes, with SELINUX enabled and enforcing) setting tinc.conf's ProcessPriority=high prevents tincd from starting. Anybody have an answer? It is probably SELINUX that prevents tinc from getting a higher than normal

Re: Tinc performance on a Dir-300

2010-09-20 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:29:44PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: Have you tried nice? On a full PC platform running Fedora 13 our gateway tinc node does much much better with nice. Even though there were plenty of unused CPU cycles, changing /etc/init.d/tincd by prepending 'nice -n 20' to

Regarding poor performance on DIR-300

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Adams
1. Compress should be in your hosts file, not your config file. 2. Since its a low-end CPU on the router, try using Compression=10 or 11 (fast/best lzo); I use 9 (max zlib) on my ASUS OpenWRT routers ClearOS boxes. 3. If you're using Backfire OpenWRT, you should be able to use the version of