On 2017/11/03 00:10, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > Forwarding is kernel-only and should be faster than userland > sending. So if > you're trying to determine performance when used for forwarding, > you need to > have other machine/s sending and receiving packets for the test > > > The thing is the the uplink to my ISP is supposed to be 500Mbit/sec. > But I only get around 400MB/s, which seems a bit low for a gigabit > interface. > Problem is not with the ISP, as I've tested with an old-ish laptop. (I > even get a bit more than 500Mbit/s!) > Perhaps current is using some extra debug-stuff that slows things down? >
You may get a little more with tweaks, but the real answer is the ongoing work to improve SMP in the OpenBSD network stack. I like the APU2 but that's a rather fast connection and running fairly close to current limits.
