I do, thanks.Hmm, let's see if I can give you the information without breaking a confidentiality agreement. Ah, here is a discussion on the openwrt mailing list: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2013-Augus... As you can see, they reported 90mb/s (they also quote 710, but I think that is the switch doing that). And that's on a mips74k.

I know it's made for routers, but most likely not for doing a lot in software. As you quote, it does hardware NAT. There's a reason they put that in.

There isn't a fundamental reason why the mips couldn't do the job, but running stock linux it's going to be thrashing its L1 cache, and it doesn't have an L2. Also, next time you play with one of those,check the hardware counters for how many instructions/sec it actually manages to process running flat out :-)

It's a chip for very low-end routers: 2.4GHz only, no gigabit switch (although apparently it can be equipped with two gigabit ports), and a CPU that would struggle to do 50Mbps WAN-LAN with firewall and QoS. It's only redeeming quality is that it apparently has a PCIe lane, but the CPU is still going to have trouble feeding whatever NIC you connect to that.

I looked into a lot of these boards a while back and most are like this one: crippled with 100mbps Ethernet. Sad to see that yes, this one is too. The Ethernet module is far slower than what the CPU can push.

Doesn't destroy it, but it's certainly a black mark. Are 1gig chipsets that much more expensive than 100mbps these days?