Re: Any tips for tuning NetBSD for NAT?

[Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 03:03:30PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
> Hi, I have a Soekris net5501 (AMD Geode LX 433MHz, VIA VT6105M Rhine
> III ethernet) running NetBSD-current from June 2015 and pf as a NAT
> box. I just upgraded my internet speed to 100Mbps down/10Mbps up, and
> it seems that the net5501 is a bottleneck. When downloading a large
> file, I'm getting about 70Mbps, and "systat vm" shows that 99%+ of the
> CPU is processing interrupts (and user processes are very sluggish
> too).

My ALIX (AMD Geode 431.65-MHz, VIA VT6105M Rhine III) runs FreeBSD 8.1
(build date 2012) with pf+nat+altq (mostly priq on the upstream) and
during the download of a 4GB dvd I get around 11.0MB/s while the ALIX
cpu seems to have 15-30% spare time.

No BIND, though.

		Petar