On 20 October 2014 01:29, Flávio Silveira <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening, > > I've been told that this router is great only when using EdgeOS, because > of proprietary drivers and optimizations. > > Is there anyone working on this router that can confirm this information? > Is there any benchmarks I could do and compare between OpenWRT and EdgeOS? >
Yes, that's because of fastpath (aka hardware NAT). Not so long ago I compared the performance. When fastpath is enabled (e.g. EdgeOS) you get almost wire speed NAT (~900Mbps, TCP). Without that I got ~270Mbps. But the question is, do you really need wire speed NAT? If you do need then you are probably not a SOHO user. Anyway... I'm not aware of any open source implementations of fastpath driver for octeon family. Maybe it's worth to start bugging cavium itself or device manufacturers so they release at least reference driver for fastpath :) Regards, Roman _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
