Soekris Net4801 performance

[David Kelly]

On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:19 AM, johnryan_852 at iprimus.com.au wrote:

> ftp put is around 3Mbytes/sec and ftp get is around 2Mbytes/sec
> ifconfig says:
> sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         inet 172.20.36.56 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 172.20.39.255
>         inet6 fe80::200:24ff:fec5:cf48%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         ether 00:00:24:c5:cf:48
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>
> Has anyone got any experience with these machines and any advice?

If you are running off CF card(s) then 2 to 3 MB/sec is about as fast  
as one can read/write. Some CF cards are faster than others.

Configure it as a router/bridge and see how fast you can ftp thru it,  
rather than with the Soekris as a destination.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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