Peter: When I used Net4801s i used to see about 25Mb/sec. My Net5501s will push 80Mb/sec and my 6501s will push about 200Mb/sec.
That's with a somewhat small to medium firewall ruleset using PFSense. On 04/19/2013 03:07 PM, Peter Bako wrote: > I have been (and still am) running a Soekris net4801 for my home firewall, > using OpenBSD (version 5.0 at the moment). Recently Comcast upped the speed > around here to 50Mbits, so I picked up a new router from them and got it > configured and set to bridge mode. If I hook my laptop directly to the > router and run some speed tests, I definitely hit the 50Mbps limit. > However, once I plug the router into my firewall and run the speed tests > through any machine on the other side of the firewall, my speed tops out > around 11Mbps. > > My backbone switch is 1G capable and through that have verified that the > port which firewall feeds into is running at 100Mbps and my workstation is > at 1G. Looking through the config of the OpenBSD on the firewall also shows > that both interfaces are at 100Mbps. I am not finding any setting anywhere > in the firewall OS which would limit my speed, so I am wondering if the > issues is with the 4801 hardware. > > Has anyone else have a similar config and been able to see speeds past the > 11Mbits rate? > > Thanks, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > 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
