The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

Posted Jan 11, 2010 22:43 UTC (Mon) by timh (subscriber, #1946)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

Depending on your service level, you might want to do some performance
testing with your choice of router firmware.

After I switched branches of the telecom duopoly, I continued to use OpenWrt
and it looked like they weren't delivering the promised performance. But,
after running tests using the telco provided router, it turned out the
performance problem was in the Linksys/OpenWrt combination.

Also, you might want to take a look at http://x-wrt.org, which provides a
web interface to tame OpenWrt.

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Performance

Posted Jan 12, 2010 0:17 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

That's a good point. I didn't really even think about it because, with Tomato, the WRT54GL is able to run my (10Mb) connection at full speed without really even getting warm, even with QOS and L7 turned on. If OpenWRT is not able to do the same, that would certainly be worth noting.

Performance

Posted Jan 12, 2010 2:16 UTC (Tue) by nbd (subscriber, #14393) [Link]

In my tests with Linux 2.6, the current builds from SVN trunk or the git repo have shown around twice as much routing throughput with netfilter enabled, compared to the 8.09.* release builds.
With 2.4 the difference won't be as big, but if I remember correctly, our 2.4 kernel also contains some performance enhancements that were not merged back into the 8.09 release branch.

The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

Posted Jan 19, 2010 13:54 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

I personally don't see the point in x-wrt anymore. It's much slower than LuCI and less extensible. And it's written in sh, which is about as bad as it gets when it comes to programming languages.