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Posted Jan 12, 2010 0:17 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review by timh
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

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.


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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.

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