Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-06-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-05-29, David Diggles wrote: > I would love to get 3MB/s, but maybe 1.8MB/s is the limit of the > realtek NIC. There are various different realtek-based nics. rl(4) are generally quite poor and need a fair bit of CPU power to drive. re(4) should be a bit better. But Geode is slow anyway es

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-31 Thread Bentley, Dain
s [da...@elven.com.au] Received: Thursday, 31 May 2012, 4:51pm To: misc@openbsd.org [misc@openbsd.org] Subject: Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link FYI I have now run the same pppoe(4) download test on core2duo with OpenBSD 5.1, on em0 interface. It beats the Mac. Mac G5 dual core 2GHz 3MB/s

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-31 Thread David Diggles
FYI I have now run the same pppoe(4) download test on core2duo with OpenBSD 5.1, on em0 interface. It beats the Mac. Mac G5 dual core 2GHz 3MB/s Intel core2duo 3GHz OpenBSD i386 3.44MB/s I have found on the Geode 300MHz, cleaning up the pf.conf, removing modulate state, and no-df from scrub impr

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-30 Thread David Diggles
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:23:32PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: [ snip ] > http://bincrow.net/test.log [ snip ] Interesting, this single post got http://bincrow.net added to the Websense blocklist. Category: "This Websense category is filtered: Potentially Damaging Content. Sites in this catego

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-29 Thread David Diggles
Andre, as promised; Here are the outputs you have asked for, but on the Geode 300MHz. Throughputs, http downloading src.tar.gz from my ISP mirror in a loop: Tue May 29 16:33:45 EST 2012 1.84 MB/s Tue May 29 16:35:01 EST 2012 1.86 MB/s Tue May 29 16:36:17 EST 2012 1.87 MB/s The same test when I

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-28 Thread David Diggles
> Could you please be a bit more specific about your setup? Sure. > Are you using pppoe(4) or pppoe(8)? pppoe(4) > Do you see maxed out mbufs (netstat -m), a very high interrupt load (top > / vmstat -i), ifq drops (sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq.drops), interface errors > (netstat -i)? None of the abo

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-28 Thread Andre Keller
Am 28.05.2012 15:26, schrieb David Diggles: > Maybe I should try some of the kernel tuning suggested on calomel. I would not even visit that site... It's mostly a waste of time as most of the tunings are not up-to-date or just plain wrong. OpenBSD ships with pretty sane defaults that normally do n

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-28 Thread David Diggles
I have got it to do 10Mbps now, by ditching the "85Mbps" ethernet over power adaptors, in favor of a cable. I get 12Mbps if I run it to the 2.4GHz Pentium 4 xl0 100Mbps port. No idea what is slowing it down here yet. It should be getting 30Mbps, like it does on the Mac. Maybe I should try some

Re: Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-21 Thread David Diggles
> FWIW, I have 20M/5M VDSL service at home and have zero issue doing > 20Mbps with OpenBSD as my pppoe-based firewall. That said, while I > wouldn't expect a 300MHz machine to limit you to 2.4Mbps, it is a bit > weak--and rl NICs are some of the worst out there. Curiously, when > doing 2.4Mbps, w

Tuning for pppoe over fibre 30M/1M link

2012-05-21 Thread David Diggles
Now I'm all upgraded to 5.1 I'm very happy with it all, other than a few minor issues, most notably: I am still getting 300 kilobytes/second download speed with OpenBSD pppoe, however when I plug directly into a Mac and run pppoe on it, 3 megabytes/second. What should I look at for tuning t