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

[Viktor Madarasz]

Hi Mark

thanks

i checked and good to see that ER-6P its bigger brother also supported

too bad the price is significantly more expensive compared to the 
Edgerouter Lite

Tough its still cheaper than picking up a router/firewall compatible 
appliance from Aliexpress with shipping

Viktor

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Mark Moellering wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 16:06:39 -0400
> From: Mark Moellering <markmoellering at psyberation.com>
> To: Viktor Madarasz <viktormadarasz at SDF.ORG>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Performance of Routing on Edgerouter Lite with Latest FreeBSD
>     Mips/Octeon
> 
>
> On 4/9/20 1:53 PM, Viktor Madarasz wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Mark
>> 
>> You did better results with an Edgerouter 4 with its stock Ubiquity OS or 
>> putting OpenBSD on that one as well?
>> 
>> Viktor
>
>
> Viktor,
>
>
> I had better results when I put OpenBSD on it.? I use it as my current 
> firewall.? I don't have it hooked up to do a 'proper' speed test but I get 
> over 500M up and down from my ISP (I have fiber).
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
>> 
>> 
>> 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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