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

[Viktor Madarasz]

Hi Mark

You did better results with an Edgerouter 4 with its stock Ubiquity OS or 
putting OpenBSD on that one as well?

Viktor


On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Mark Moellering wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:01:04 -0400
> From: Mark Moellering <markmoellering at psyberation.com>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD
>     Mips/Octeon
> 
>
> 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
>> 
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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
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