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Do you use the router features as well, or do use it only as a mini computer for testing?
by wolfhumble 11y ago
Do you use the router features as well, or do use it only as a mini computer for testing?
- faragon 11y agoSure! As router as well, simultaneously. I access via ssh, having repositories inside, doing pulls, builds, etc. Is just like any other machine (in that router you can run at least Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD). Network performance is great. I use two ports for two internal networks (through a gigabit switch in one port, and the second usually used only for specific experiments), and the third one for the WAN access. Hardware is fast: two 500MHz MIPS64 CPUs with 512MB of RAM (Cavium CN5020, 128KB L2 cache, 64-bit memory transfers are faster than twice as fast as 32-bit ones), each of one doing 2 instructions per cycle (4 instruction per cycle, counting both CPUs). The only notable downside is not having hardware floating point support (software doing extensive floating point usage will run slow). The device has hardware packet and cryptographic acceleration. In the Linux case is able to fill gigabit links (manufacturer claims 1 million packet per second -I haven't pushed it that far-), and also some features are available on FreeBSD (e.g. hardware crypto, but not packet acceleration, if I recall correctly), and few/none (?) on OpenBSD (uses only one half of the RAM and just one CPU).
- wolfhumble 11y agoThanks for the extended information! :-)