OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet) [LWN.net]

OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jun 8, 2007 9:01 UTC (Fri) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet) by sbergman27
Parent article: OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet)

IMHO even better than the Linksys models, are the ones from ASUS. I had an ASUS WL500G-Deluxe for 1 1/2 years and I know these moments of admiration, you described pretty well :) It has 200MHz, 32MB RAM, 4MB Flash and two USB2 ports.

I recently upgraded to the WL500G-Premium which now costs about the same (about 80 Euros here) and brings 266MHz, 32MB RAM 8MB(!) Flash and two USB2 ports. It's awesome what this little machine can do. I too use it as a file server. Brings me 3,5MB/s of transfer speed over the network :)
And I have still 2MB free space on the flash and it's getting hard to find something worth installing. I already have screen, ctorrent, nmap, iptraf (how cool is that?), tcpdump and even the huge nsupdate (the binary has 1,3MB!) for dynamically updating my DNS.

Downloading large ISOs via bittorrent over night with just 15W of power. It still exites me :)

I just hope that someone will manage to get the hardware crypto stuff working sometime. That would be just awesome, as that would spare me the old notebook doing VPN in our second office. The WL500G-Deluxe peaks at about 3MBit/s :(

But many, many thanks to the openWRT guys, you rock!

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OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jun 8, 2007 16:05 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Hey, could you post some more details about your set up? My WRTSL54GS has exactly the same processor running at exactly the same speed. And running OpenWRT Kamikaze with the 2.6.21 kernel, NFSv3 using the kernel space NFS server, and an rsize/wsize of 32768, I don't get that transfer speed. The limitation is definitely processor, as it sits pegged at 100% while transfering at 2.4MB/sec, and the NFS server thread is using 94%.

It sounds as if you are getting an almost 50% better rate and I'm very interested in why that might be.

Thanks,
Steve Bergman

OpenWRT 101 (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jun 10, 2007 22:40 UTC (Sun) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

The only difference that comes to my head right now is that I'm still running whiterussian. Hope to come around to try kamikaze this week.