Micro Routers (Was:Raspberry PI (as router))

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 12 20:59:43 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:14:57PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> True. But when your connected to a DSL modem topping out at 6Mbps
> down and 800Kbps one will likely not care.

My DSL is 25/7, so I might care.  Of course my router has 5 gigabit
ports on it (4 switched, one direct to CPU for WAN), so it isn't
a problem.

> Lennat, you wouldn't happen to have any recommendations for testing
> the performance? iperf comes to mind, but that will only look at
> upd/tcp throughput.

udp/tcp covers typical use.

I like nttcp for bandwidth testing.  fping can be brutal too.

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