ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Jim Thompson]

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. 

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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