Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On 9/24/2012 6:08 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: is there a chance to this option in kernel [device mptable] go to pfsense amd64 ? or a guide on how to build from source at home ? It's possible, but I'm not sure. I'm not familiar with that specific option myself. If you're doing a custom build, you could put export EXTRA_DEVICES=mptable in pfsense-build.conf and that should pass the device through to the kernel config during the build process. I'll ask around the other devs and see if people think it's safe to add that. Wouldn't hurt to have a feature request ticket in our bug tracker - http://redmine.pfsense.org Jim ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On Fri, September 21, 2012 18:13, Jim Pingle wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:39 AM, Robert Guerra wrote: Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? What kernel extensions? I'm not aware of any net6501-specific code in FreeBSD anywhere yet. There are some options for older geode-based Soekris boards but we already include those in pfSense (via options CPU_SOEKRIS) If there are newer options/code that I'm not aware of I'd love to hear about it. Doing a grep through the source tree didn't turn up anything, but I only looked at the source for 9.1. Jim Jim, is there a chance to this option in kernel go to pfsense amd64 ? or a guide on how to build from source at home ? thanks, matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On 21 Sep 2012 18:27, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:39 AM, Robert Guerra wrote: Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? What kernel extensions? I'm not aware of any net6501-specific code in FreeBSD anywhere yet. There are some options for older geode-based Soekris boards but we already include those in pfSense (via options CPU_SOEKRIS) If there are newer options/code that I'm not aware of I'd love to hear about it. Doing a grep through the source tree didn't turn up anything, but I only looked at the source for 9.1. Jim, I dont remember now but there is at least one kernel option to make amd64 Freebsd 9 to boot on the 6501. I lost all my cf that could have the kernel conf with it. But I will look for and post here if I find. That's why I was looking for how to build pfsense from scratch. The info for FreeBSD 9.0 is on the Soekris wiki here: http://wiki.soekris.info/Net6501_freebsd I haven't tried yet with FreeBSD 9.1-RC to see if the device mptable kernel configuration option is still needed for amd64 on the Soekris net6501 with that latest kernel. Regards, Denis F. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On Fri, September 21, 2012 06:58, Jeff Rhys-Jones wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff I did some simple iperf testing, and got not so good numbers. I don't remember exactly them, but never crossed the 300Mbps barrier. I really think never crossed the 150Mbps ... need to reassemble the box to run it again. Using pfSense 2.0.1 i386 (unfortunately couldn't run amd64 on it), gigabit lan on both sides, not rules (just basic nat, default config). att, matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Send me a couple and ill figure all that out for you! ;) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Jeff Rhys-Jones jeffrhysjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Bryan, Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? thanks Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2012-09-21, at 10:33 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: Send me a couple and ill figure all that out for you! ;) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Jeff Rhys-Jones jeffrhysjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Thanks Bryan, but ... errr - I was hoping to find out if PF ran like a dog on it **before** I splashed the cash to get one in!!! Matheus - I have got up to 480Mb/s on a Supermicro Atom based server (SYS-5015A-EHF-D525) with Intel NICs using standard FreeBSD igb driver in PF 2.1. Most tests show an average of 320Mb/s. So I was a bit disappointed with that - but now you've told me you're not even getting 150Mbs - perhaps I'm just being plain greedy!?!? I'm not cooking the CPU, this is the Atom D525 dual core atom with hyperthreads and yes I see 4 X CPUs in PF. So I guess this is just the infamous PFSense issue with Intel NIC drivers..? Or just FreeBSD itself.? Jeff On 21 Sep 2012, at 15:33, Bryan Irvine wrote: Send me a couple and ill figure all that out for you! ;) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Jeff Rhys-Jones jeffrhysjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.org wrote: Bryan, Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? How can I do this ? I really would like to do this. Matheus If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? thanks Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2012-09-21, at 10:33 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: Send me a couple and ill figure all that out for you! ;) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Jeff Rhys-Jones jeffrhysjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech --- We will call uou Cygnus, the God of balance you shall be. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On Fri, September 21, 2012 11:49, Jeff Rhys-Jones wrote: Thanks Bryan, but ... errr - I was hoping to find out if PF ran like a dog on it **before** I splashed the cash to get one in!!! Matheus - I have got up to 480Mb/s on a Supermicro Atom based server (SYS-5015A-EHF-D525) with Intel NICs using standard FreeBSD igb driver in PF 2.1. Most tests show an average of 320Mb/s. So I was a bit disappointed with that - but now you've told me you're not even getting 150Mbs - perhaps I'm just being plain greedy!?!? Jeff, I did some testing on my 6501. I first tried it to be a NAS, and got to compare the same eSATA PCIe card there and in an intel 525 atom board. What I was to blame the CPU, on a second thought, I saw it was much easier to be caused by all bus bottleneck on the board design. It was just not meant to be used that way. The throughput on the mini itx atom was more than 4x what the soekris got me. so, as you say this about the atom board, it doesn't come to me as a surprise. but as I said, would be much secure for me to do the test again, and send the screen. I don't know if I have pure FreeBSD for the test, so the test could be more thorough. I'm not cooking the CPU, this is the Atom D525 dual core atom with hyperthreads and yes I see 4 X CPUs in PF. So I guess this is just the infamous PFSense issue with Intel NIC drivers..? I wouldn't blame it on intel driver. but the cpu was not really 100%. someone else must have done this test as well, and could give you more accurate numbers. what kind of traffic you intend to pass on it ? att, matheus Or just FreeBSD itself.? Jeff On 21 Sep 2012, at 15:33, Bryan Irvine wrote: Send me a couple and ill figure all that out for you! ;) Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Jeff Rhys-Jones jeffrhysjo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone had a chance to run some benchmarks using the net6501 and pfsense 2.x? What is the max interface to interface firewallrouting the net6501 will handle? Cheers, Jeff ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
On 9/21/2012 10:39 AM, Robert Guerra wrote: Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? What kernel extensions? I'm not aware of any net6501-specific code in FreeBSD anywhere yet. There are some options for older geode-based Soekris boards but we already include those in pfSense (via options CPU_SOEKRIS) If there are newer options/code that I'm not aware of I'd love to hear about it. Doing a grep through the source tree didn't turn up anything, but I only looked at the source for 9.1. Jim ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:39 AM, Robert Guerra wrote: Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? What kernel extensions? I'm not aware of any net6501-specific code in FreeBSD anywhere yet. There are some options for older geode-based Soekris boards but we already include those in pfSense (via options CPU_SOEKRIS) If there are newer options/code that I'm not aware of I'd love to hear about it. Doing a grep through the source tree didn't turn up anything, but I only looked at the source for 9.1. Found it. http://old.nabble.com/FreeBSD-amd64-on-Net6501-td32928121.html Matheus Jim ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech --- We will call uou Cygnus, the God of balance you shall be. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 and pfsense 2.x performance?
Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:39 AM, Robert Guerra wrote: Have you or other members of the list compiled pfsense 2.1 from source so as to generate the Soekris 6501 kernel extensions? If not, might there be someone on the list that could help me with that? What kernel extensions? I'm not aware of any net6501-specific code in FreeBSD anywhere yet. There are some options for older geode-based Soekris boards but we already include those in pfSense (via options CPU_SOEKRIS) If there are newer options/code that I'm not aware of I'd love to hear about it. Doing a grep through the source tree didn't turn up anything, but I only looked at the source for 9.1. Jim, I dont remember now but there is at least one kernel option to make amd64 freebsd 9 to boot on the 6501. I lost all my cf that could have the kernel conf with it. But I will look for and post here if I find. That's why I was looking for how to build pfsense from scratch. Atr, Matheus Jim ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech --- We will call uou Cygnus, the God of balance you shall be. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
