On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:44:44AM +0800, Jesper Andersen wrote: > Currently I have an old AMD K6 233MHz, 128 MB ram PC running linux as > firewall, openVPN box in my parents house. I was thinking about replacing > it with a soekris board with OpenBSD. To have a smaller box using less > power and to try out OpenBSD in real use. > > I was thinking about the 4501-30 or 4801-50. The question is how much is > needed. Currently I see 10-15% cpu usage from openvpn when transferring > 1mbit/sek. I expect openvpn don't have to handle more than 2mbit/sek > traffik. I saw someone say something about interupts from the NIC setting > some limit to how much traffic this boards can handle. Is there any truth > that. What is the limit? I expect it will have to handle 20mbit speed > within the foreseeable future. > Can I expect the 4501-30 to be enough or should I spend a bit more for the > 4801-50, also to have a bit more spare resources for later. >
Yes, there were originally problems with the sis openbsd driver. See this thread: http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2004-May/005969.html I can't recall if they were resolved. In any case, even with the problems the limit was 30Mbit/s. Buy the more expensive soekris, you won't regret it. There was also another thread discussing freebsd performance: http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-April/008130.html Cheers, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
