Hardware

I recently installed M0n0wall 1.8.1 on an APU1c from PC Engines as an upgrade from an Alix 2D13.

I was hoping it would be fast enough to fully utilise the 250 Mbit/s Internet connection I have from Cablecom.

My tests indicate that the APU1c can do up to 247 Mbit/s.

By comparison, the old Alix 2D13 manages around 46 Mbit/s.

These were not rigorous tests, but I think they give an reasonable impression of what speeds the two boards achieve with M0n0wall.

Steve

Could you test VPN and traffic shaped throughput as well? That would be very interesting.

Cheers,
Lennart

I don't use VPN at the moment, so I can't comment on that.

I'm not sure what to say about traffic shaping: I had it switched on (without realising it) and it throttled my throughput to the extent that I doubted the capacity of the board (it was set at 95 Mbit/s and I was getting 88+ Mbit/s).

The 247 Mbit/s were without traffic shaping.

Steve

It occurs to me that the APU1c may be capable of more than 247 Mbit/s. My Internet connection is only 250 MBit/s so it is possible that that is the limiting factor.

Steve

Try routing traffic between a machine on your LAN and a machine on an OPT interface instead of between your WAN and LAN.

I got 800mbps through it at ~80% cpu.

That 800meg might have been the limit of your desktop nic.  I have seen some gigabit card cap as low as 600 meg. (Mostly in laptops)