[WLANware] Bandwith limitation in OLSR?

Alexander Morlang alx at dd19.de
Mon Apr 7 17:30:49 CEST 2008


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albert homs schrieb:
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> 
> 2008/4/5, Daniel Paufler <dpaufler at leo34.net <mailto:dpaufler at leo34.net>>:
> 
>     Hey albert
> 
> 
>     > I've two FF linksys wrt54g linked with cable connected at LAN port on
>     > each box. Wifi connection between the boxes is filtered in OLSR filter
>     > and an openvpn tunnel is configured to force the traffic pass over
>     the cable
>     > Launching a netperf to the OLSR IP (and also to the tunnel IP, that is
>     > also in the range of olsr netmask) gives me about 3mbit/sec, but when
>     > launching to the LAN IP shows about 15mbit/sec.
>     >
>     > Any explanation to this behaviour?
> 
>     You using encryption in your tunnel i suppose.
> 
> 
> No, we don't use encription,
> 
>     remeber that your 150mhz
>     wrt have to encrypt/decrypt your traffic. have a look with top while you
>     re doing netperf.
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Daniel
> 
openvpn creates a lot o context switches, as it runs in userland. this
may decreas performance a lot.

Alex
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