[rescue] Small Cheap Linux Board??

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 04:19:44PM +0000, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:18:50PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > I use an Alix 2C3 (running pfSense) as my main router/firewall at home.
> As a matter of interest, what kind of network throughput do you get? I'm
> guessing it's fast enough for a typical cable/ADSL2+ connection?

The 2C3 is overkill for my network (and for most people's).  
I have a 6/768 DSL connection (through ATT UVerse) and the Alix board has
not been a bottleneck.

>From someone else's testing:

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There is one IPERF computer on the LAN (192.168.0.199) and one on the WAN
(1.1.1.1) There is a port forward of standard port 5001 TCP/UDP for IPERF

PFSense is doing the NATting.
All links are 100Mbits Full Duplex (auto-negociated)

All tests are done with IPERF

Test:  TCP both way at the time:
-----------------------------------------------------------
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[3912]  0.0-10.0 sec  69.4 MBytes  57.9 Mbits/sec
[3916]  0.0-10.0 sec  68.5 MBytes  57.4 Mbits/sec


Test:  TCP one way (Server = WAN)
-----------------------------------------------------------
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[3876]  0.0-10.0 sec   102 MBytes  86.1 Mbits/sec


Test: TCP one way (server = LAN)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[3960]  0.0-10.1 sec  95.1 MBytes  79.2 Mbits/sec
PC Engines Alix 2c3, OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09 Final:
1 connection, WAN (port forwarded) - LAN: 90~95 Mbps aggregate
50 connections, WAN (port forwarded) - LAN: 37 Mbps aggregate
100 connections, WAN (port forwarded) - LAN: 18 Mbps aggregate

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas