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wolfhumble has a dead question [0]:

"Do you use the router features as well, or do use it only as a mini computer for testing?"

Given that the ERL requires a blob to use the hardware offload features of the Octeon (without which routing and firewalling performance is reduced by a factor of 10 to 20), one would expect that using the thing as a router while running OpenBSD would give you -at best- 100mbit/s throughput.

Does that match your experience, or are you not really using it as a gigabit router, or am I woefully misinformed?

[0] According to his comment history, it looks like he's being shadowbanned, but I can't figure out why.



Thanks for the heads up about the shadowbanning, now removed. It was caused by a moderator misclick or other mistake. Thanks again! :-)


No problem!

I found myself mistakenly shadowbanned for a while quite a while back. I wonder what the UI for performing that action looks like.




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