[Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT

[Benoit PAPILLAULT]

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Imre Kaloz a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Moving to trunk might be some work here. So I would prefer to test your
binary first (something I can write to the flash directly right?) and I
will report to you.

Regards,
Benoit

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