10Mbps+ throughput usb based ethernet recommendation

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Mon, March 1, 2010 16:10, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:57:02PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>> hail,
>>
>> I need an usb nic that is able to push more then 10Mbps on wire. if is
altq capable better.
>>
>
> AFAIK all USB ethernet drivers support altq(4).
>
>> I use pfsense as router, but my next upgrade will use 10Mbps link and
my aue and rue nic's can't pass the 5Mbps barrier. I need to use three
to make 11Mbps on it, and its not a good thing for me in production.
>>
>> I've seen some axe based on its manual page, but I'm afraid to buy and it
>> won't solve my problem. if anyone has any leads/experience on this please
>> broadcast :)
>>
>
> Last time I tried AX88178 based axe(4) controller, I can push more than
200Mbps. Related change already MFCed to stable/8.

well, I did that but using that chip on windows :(

I got two nics based on these chips but they are unstable as hell in
FreeBSD. on pfSense (FreeBSD 7.1 and 7.2 versions) I never got the axe0
media to be active. on 8-stable (this box), one got issues with media link
and the other can set link state ok, but looses 10% of ping packets. iperf
gets cut every now and then and this makes the throughput suffer :(

I plan to use pfSense 1.2.3 (7.2 based) and when available pfSense 2.0
(8.0 based).

are there any patches to try ? it is really unstable here ...

some logs:

Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.5 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 42556 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-32.7 sec  69.5 MBytes  17.8 Mbits/sec
[root at darkside ~]# iperf -c 192.168.1.2 -t 30
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.5 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 45725 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-30.6 sec    128 MBytes  35.1 Mbits/sec
[root at darkside ~]# iperf -c 192.168.1.2 -t 30
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.5 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 38546 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-31.0 sec    129 MBytes  35.0 Mbits/sec

this is:

FreeBSD xxx 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #7: Sun Mar 21 03:45:47 BRT 2010
    root at xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx  amd64

and on both ends there is a nic using this chip, here is this freebsd and
the other on windows xp.

as said above, when run iperf on this nic on windows and my nfe gigabit I
got those 228Mbps said above.

thanks,

matheus

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