On 2007/01/15 17:25, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Thanks for your reply. Performance is of course relative. ATM i am > getting 7 Mbit/s via OpenVPN measured with iperf. This is somewhat less > than my WLAN can handle (54 Mbit/s)
54 Mbit/s is before protocol overhead; actual throughput is a bit less than half that (assuming signal strength is strong, no packet loss etc, however unlikely that is). This is around the limit of what you can handle on the current Soekris boards _without_ encryption. Crypto h/w helps a bit, but not a lot. NPtcp seems to fill the network better than iperf, so might be a better test. But if you're really interested in fileserver performance, it's better to look at that directly under real conditions and decide whether the performance is acceptable. > and also less than the speed of the HDD (~70 Mbit/s). I don't run HDs in Soekris boxes any more; without extra cooling or extended-temperature-range drives they don't seem to last very long.
