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From firsthand experience: performance is in fact awesome on the edgerouters (4, 6, 8, and 12) using plain-vanilla Linux.

It's a big honking MIPS chip with firehose connections to the ethernet PHYs. Precisely the kind of device you want for a router.



Please elaborate.

What are the thruput measurements on OpenWRT when compared to ER-.. stock firmware, with hw accel or with DPI..?

I have an ER-4 to be able to use the entire wan connection, but on stock firmware I must disable DPI to enable hw acceleration (otherwise the thruput floors). I don't use DPI atm, so no big loss.

Can you utilize the hw accel in openWRT too?


Then you are better off buying something with a beefier cpu that costs less since it doesn't have an npu.


Awesome at what level?

Are we talking DPI at 1Gbps symmetric?




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