Andrew Von Cid wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I bought a net5501 to use as a firewall and a wireless access > point. For wireless I'm using a Ralink RT2561S minipci card. The box > is running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. > > My setup is as follows: > * vr0 - Internet uplink > * vr1 - LAN > * ral0 - Wireless, mode 11g, channel 1, WPA > > I'm experiencing really poor performance under heavy wireless load. The > interrupts seem to use around 95% of the cpu and it affects the LAN > performance considerably (voip gets choppy, slow ssh, etc.)
> Is there anything I can do to improve the wireless performance (as in > the cpu load)? Would changing the wireless card to a minipci Atheros > help? > > I'd be very grateful for any suggestions. I'd ask Jim Thompson of Netgate re: wireless adapter issues -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might consider using a traffic shaper for VoIP and interactive traffic. Using dummynet with GRED on the wireless interface (the one subject to congestion/interference) and giving greater weight to traffic smaller than the MTU size might help. I don't know if there's a FreeBSD port of any of the split-TCP proxies... Sorry, it's late on the West Coast, and I've been drinking sake and watching Zatoichi movies. - Michael _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
