> Andrew Nance wrote: > > | It is hard to estimate but somewhere around 750 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps total > | bandwidth. > > Almost anything fairly modern (ie: Pentium-class PCI based system) > should be > able to handle this kind of bandwidth. Even 486 based systems with EISA > cards (should you actually be able to find one) could probably move this > much data around. > - -- > Charles Steinkuehler
On a Soekris net4801 with Bering 1.2 using a 100Mb/s switch and a 8Mb/s cable modem I calculated almost 5Mb/s throughput on FTP. That is: 720MB CD transferred in 20 minutes == 36 MB in a minute == 0.6 MB in a second == 4.8 Mb/s. I guess a WRAP should behave close to this. Not that this below is a very relevant piece of information since the packets were very big and packet count was low, but: on the same Soekris wired with cross eth cables to one workstation on each side (no public connection) with 100Mb/s cards I fed the Soekris from one workstation with ping packets of 64Kbytes per second by increasing the number of simultaneous ping processes. On the target workstation I was observing the received throughput. I kept loading the Soekris/Bering with up to 42 streams, which makes roughly 42 Mb/s of bidirectional traffic. (1 packet sent per second; packet size 64KB * 8 = 512Kb; ping reply makes 2 x 512 Kb/s == 1 Mb/s; 42 processes == 42 Mb/s). More than 42 Mb/s produced a non-linear graph of the received traffic on the target workstation. Doing the same test on a commercial SOHO ethernet firewall/router caused the commercial router to colaps with overload at 4Mb/s, that is after the fourth simultaneous 64KB ping. Tom ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
