Re: Red PPPoE Interface speed

Darren Conway wrote:

> Hi
> I get just over 90Mbps based on tests without IPCop and about 25Mbps
> with IPCop.  The test site doesn't know whether IPCop is in-line or
> not.  I'd be really suspicious if both speed tests were similar.
> I have ordered a faster PC to run IPCop on. I anticipate that will speed
> up my connection.
> Dazz
> 

Get the nmon utility from http://www.cobin.de/binary.php and run it on your 
IPCop. You will get lots of useful data on cpu loading and throughput and 
will show you where any bottlenecks are, but you will need a web server to 
display the graphs if you use the associated nmonchart utility.

On an Alix 2D3 (500 MHz AMD Geode ans 256 MB ram) I was getting about 1600 
kBps (12.8 Mbps)  before IPCop became cpu limited. This was fine until I 
upgrade from 8 Mbps ADSL to 40 Mbps VDSL.

I now run IPCop on a PC Engines APU2 C4 (1 GHz quad Jaguar core and 4GB of 
RAM) which I have been unable to saturate with 40 Mbps VDSL, so not sure 
how fast the maximum throughput would be but I would expect it to be 
comfortable at 90 Mbps.

Linux kernel 3.4-3  does support multiple processors but you may need to set 
the cpufreq governors to "ondemand". You could use cpufrequtils (from the 
above address) to set the governor.

I do run additional Addons on IPCop and have a large IPtable block list so 
maybe my set up isn't typical but I wouldn't expect a 2D3 type board to run 
significantly any faster than the 12 Mbps I recorded with a basic IPCop 
installation

Bob



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