[Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT

[Imre Kaloz]

2008.01.04. 22:17:34 dátumon Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault at free.fr>  
írta:

> I am an happy user of Gateworks GW2348-2 with OpenWRT on it (Kamikaze
> 7.09). Recently Gateworks has switched from using RedBoot 2.02 to
> RedBoot 2.04 and i am experiencing some performance problem.
>
> To be more accurate, OpenWRT do not use the IAL library, just the NPE
> microcode and an opensource driver. Problems are:
> - - throughput problem (down to 400 kbits)
> - - corrupted packets (as seen on tcpdump on another machine)
> - - no packets (tcpdump show the same packet over and over on the
> gateworks, but nothing is received at the other end).
>
> Was wondering if someone else was experiencing the same problem or if
> you guys are using the bare IAL 2.4?

Try trunk. It has a newer, soon-mainlined driver where thse problems  
should have been fixed. If you want, I can put online a binary to test for  
you.


Imre


P.S: trunk also has new uClibc, and uses ARM EABI, so it's not binary  
compatible.