Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD Mips/Octeon

[Mark Moellering]

On 4/9/20 7:32 AM, Viktor Madarasz wrote:
> Hi
>
> i was looking at the page
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/mips/Octeon?action=show&redirect=FreeBSD%2Fmips%2FOcteon 
>
>
> where amongst other things mentioned Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite as 
> compatible and also that Gigabit speeds on Basic Packet passing should 
> be OK.
>
> I started to look at classifieds and I see some devices available for 
> grabs.
>
> However I came across this article where the user explains one of the 
> drawbacks being not being able to push more than 250Mbit per second 
> between two Gigabit Hosts. However that article was not made on the 
> latest available build as far as I see...
>
> http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/
>
> Question:
>
> Anyone has experience with Edgerouter Lite and FreeBSD and can comment 
> on the real time performance achieved?
>
> Perhaps one of the other mentioned HW would be more suitable to go for 
> ( even if it seems difficult to even find any.. Lanner , Portwell and 
> Radisys devices )
>
> Perhaps going the x86 route and pick up some appliance from Aliexpress 
> which should work as a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD router/firewall and 
> achieve Gigabit speed on ports while passing packets easily/easier?
>
> f.e : 
> https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32860646292.html?spm=2114.12057483.0.0.1f2b5af1TD1IWP
>
> Regards
>
> Viktor
>
> viktormadarasz at sdf.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
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I put OpenBSD on an EdgeRouter Lite and it didn't do so well. From what 
I understand, there are linux kernel modules needed to get speed out of 
the EdgeRouter Lite; In any case, I did not get a really good 
throughput.  I got an EdgeRouter 4 and things worked much better.

-- Mark