[Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT

[Mark Kelly]

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From: Mark Kelly <mark.kelly at cadre5.com>
To: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault at free.fr>
Cc: avila <avila at lists.gateworks.com>
Subject: Re: [Avila] Ethernet performance problem with OpenWRT
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:59:25 -0500

On the GW2345 I can only get the new driver to establish 10Mbs
connections.  No matter what is plugged into the ethernet port it still
says it is in 10 mbs mode.


On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:55 +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
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> Benoit PAPILLAULT a écrit :
> >>> Was wondering if someone else was experiencing the same problem or if
> >>> you guys are using the bare IAL 2.4?
> 
> I have tested Kamikaze 7.09 + IAL 2.4 (including patches from Gateworks
> found in their BSP). That was quite a bit of porting but it's working.
> Performance seems to be back (60 Mbits over the Ethernet port tested
> using iperf). However, without any other applications, the CPU Load
> keeps increasing over time, up to value > 1. Thus, it's still not fully
> usable.
> 
> Question : Is that a known issue?
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Thanks Imre for your firmware image. It is working, however we have not
> tested performance yet since iperf was not included. We will test your
> new firmware image including iperf and report in the next few days.
> 
> Regards,
> Benoit
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