Even your ultra low-end $30 Best Buy (or .AU equivalent) router can handle
pretty high data throughput. It's not the 'speed' that matters as much as
what you do with the traffic. As Christopher mentioned earlier, things like
firewall rules (iptables) have an exponentially higher impact in that
regard. Other things like stateful packet inspection (IDS/IPS), very large
amounts of NAT translations, complex routing rules, encrypted VPN traffic
(going directly to, and being decrypted by, the router) or anything else
that the router has to more actively "process", can also bog things down.
There is a huge different between the cheapo routers and the ones that cost
thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of dollars. But your average consumer
and SMB generally don't need the latter. On the enterprise level however,
where they are dealing with the previously cited situations, it makes a
huge difference.
-James
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Michael Knill <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Wow thats massive. I didnt realise you could get something like that out
> of such a low end box. Makes me wonder why we buy such expensive routers :)
> I guess thats why we are here :).
>
> Thanks all for responding. I will start building and throughput and the
> affect of firewall complexity will be one of my acceptance tests.
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> On 14/06/2012, at 2:58 AM, The Cadillac Kid wrote:
>
> the other thing to think about too is how busy the Phone system is and
> how you have it set up.. in my case I try and set up asterisk so it is
> nothing more than a call-control and a voicemail system.. I disable all
> in-call based tone features and set directmedia=yes so that once a call is
> established I dont have the CPU hit of asterisk passing through the RTP..
> or worse yet transcoding if for some reason each endpoint specified a
> different CODEC at the onset of the call...
>
> also the more chains you have in your iptables the more the cpu usage from
> what I have found..
>
> my Atom D2700 Board(Jetway) are easily able to make 200+ Mbit throughput
> LAN to WAN and still maintain 5 calls (asterisk in the loop (Tt on dial
> command) on the phone system.. beyond that I noticed that the Jitter and
> delay numbers going up.. so I concluded I would be Ok for most all
> internet situations..
> -Christopher
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Kristian Kielhofner <[email protected]>
> *To:* AstLinux Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:39 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Astlinux-users] AstLinux performance
>
> Most of the interfaces on Alix boards I've seen are gigabit so that
> won't be a problem. Even so I've seen 100mbps interfaces deliver a
> sustained 12.5 MB/s before.
>
> The real issue will be software router performance. The Alix boards
> I've seen can saturate 100mbps with NAT, iptables, etc but it does
> take a chunk of CPU. Depending on how stressed the system is
> performing other tasks it may have an adverse effect.
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:07 AM, David Kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have Comcast cable at home where I have seen burst downloads
> approaching
> > 20Mbps and my AstLinux (on an Alix 2C3 board) handles it just fine.
> >
> > The issue at 50 or 100Mbps downloads will be the ethernet link. 100Mbps
> is
> > the theoretical speed of fast ethernet, in practice throughput is
> somewhat
> > less. To get 100Mbps you will need Gigabit Ethernet. Many cheep single
> > board computers don't have Gigabit Ethernet ports.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Michael Knill
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> To the group
> >>
> >> Just wanting to get an idea for the group on the performance you would
> >> expect from a Intel Atom based system on a relatively high speed
> broadband
> >> connection. The reason I ask is that Australia is getting a National
> >> Broadband Network consisting of Fibre to the Home with speeds up to 100M
> >> possible. Has anyone done some testing.
> >> The available NBN plans are:
> >> 12/1
> >> 25/5
> >> 50/20
> >> 100/40 (Im sure this is out)
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mike
> >>
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