On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Phil Karn <[email protected]> wrote: > My Soekris 4801 has provided flawless service for years as a Linux > bridge/QoS router/NAT/6to4 tunnel until I recently had to retire it. > > It just wasn't fast enough to keep up with my U-verse service when I > upgraded it recently to 3 Mb/s up, 24 Mb/s down. > > I had no trouble getting the 3 Mb/s up, of course. But I just couldn't > get more than about 18-19 down. > > I temporarily swapped in a Via C3 running a very similar build. It has > no trouble getting 23+ down, which is about as close as I can reasonably > expect. > > I'd buy a 5501 if I can be *assured* that it will be fast enough. Will it? > > I generally track the latest Linux kernels. I don't do a lot of packet > filtering as we don't run Windows and I don't generally believe in > firewalls anyway. My routing table is small (8 entries) and static. I do > traffic shaping with QoS, but only in the upstream (i.e., slow) > direction. But it's also a NAT so it does track IP connection state, and > those tables can get rather large. > > The box actually acts primarily as a bridge. (It's long story having to > do with braindamage in the U-verse 2Wire gateway; see > http://www.ka9q.net/Uverse for all the gory details). >
Considering the CPU difference between the 4801 and the 5501, and the fact that you were able to get 18-19 with the 4801, I believe a 5501 would work for a 24Mbps link but I don't have hard evidence to support it. I can say a 5501 works very well with my 10Mbps cable connection (bursting to 16). -Proto _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
