ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Russell Haley]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>
> What do you mean by “true gigabit”?
>
> I’ve trivially done 939mbps over TCP / IPv4 (iperf3, even a browser-based Speedtest) on a couple different Armada 38x boards with the default pfSense ruleset “on”. Solid-Run makes one, we sell one.

We make a custom product based on the Armada 38xx and it was measured
at high 900 Mbps using a Buildroot Linux. I want to say 980 but the
engineer who did the measurements is away so I can't confirm.

I can't wait to get my hands on a netgate router. I had it all lined
up for my tax return and then the clutch in my car died. :(

https://www.netgate.com/products/sg-3100.html



> Hell, even the little single core 600MHz OMAP / 2 Ethernet router we sell will do 550mbps using pkt-gen without “pf” running.  loos@ did a huge amount of work on the NIC driver there. Same SoC family as
> Beaglebone, and BBB is 1GHz.
>
> They won’t do 1.488Mpps though, that still wants an Intel box and netmap-fwd.
>
> I do have the netmap code for the 38x though, so maybe soon...
>
> Jim
>
>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 12:06 AM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>>
>> All:
>>
>> I've been working with several ARM-based boards, and have discovered that many of them have "gigabit" Ethernet ports that actually cannot handle a gigabit! (They tend to max out at around 300 Mbps; the fine print in the spec sheets for some of them says that this is due to "bus limitations.") Any recommendations for ARM-based SBCs or project computers that have at least one (and preferably 2 or more) true gigabit Ethernet ports?
>>
>> --Brett Glass
>>
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