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profquail on Feb 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

Assuming UBNT is correct and the device supports line-rate throughput, I don't think there's any reason why FreeBSD couldn't easily support that.

The freebsd-mips mailing list already has a few threads discussing this; if you want to know why the router isn't achieving line-rate speeds "out of the box", you'll probably get the best answer there (and maybe even someone who knows how to fix the problem):

* http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2014-January...

* http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2014-Februar...

If you don't get a suitable answer there, you can also try freebsd-net:

* http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/

pktgen on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

UBNT is correct, but only for the hardware fast path. The driver for that appears to be proprietary.

profquail on Feb 22, 2014 | [–]

I think you're right about the driver. There's some more info about that here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips/Octeon

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