Linux on Linksys WRT54G

Test firmwares:

Setup:

  • Wireless client (802.11g), WPA-PSK (Personal) encryption
  • US Robotics 5450 AP
  • WAN IP static
  • DHCP server for LAN ports
  • NAT
  • Internet (default gateway) though a OpenVPN BF-CBC/lzo tunnel

Results:

  • approx. 2.3 Mbps throughput with openvpn
  • approx. 17 Mbps throughput without openvpn

dmesg:

CPU revision is: 00029007
Primary instruction cache 8kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 4kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.30 (wbx@ux-2y01) (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 Wed Sep 14 17:49:26 CEST 2005
Setting the PFC value as 0x15
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4712 rev 2 at 216 MHz
Using 108.000 MHz high precision timer.
Calibrating delay loop... 215.44 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14296k/16384k available (1390k kernel code, 2088k reserved, 100k data, 80k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Disabled
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.
Squashfs 2.1-r2 (released 2004/12/15) (C) 2002-2004 Phillip Lougher
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x400000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0xc00000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1000000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1400000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1c00000 for the chip at 0x0
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
0: offset=0x0,size=0x2000,blocks=8
1: offset=0x10000,size=0x10000,blocks=63
Using word write method
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x003f0000 : "linux"
0x000ba4b0-0x001c0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase block boundary -- force read-only
0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
0x001c0000-0x003f0000 : "OpenWrt"
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5953 buckets, 5953 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear
All bugs added by David S. Miller
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 80k freed
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
diag boardtype: 00000708
jffs2.bbc: SIZE compression mode activated.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.23.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:01.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM4320 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.37.0
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
vlan1: Setting MAC address to 00 XX XX XX XX XX
VLAN (vlan1): Underlying device (eth0) has same MAC, not checking promiscious mode.
vlan1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
vlan2: Setting MAC address to 00 14 XX XX XX XX.
vlan3: Setting MAC address to 00 14 XX XX XX XX.
vlan4: Setting MAC address to 00 14 XX XX XX XX.
vlan5: Setting MAC address to 00 14 XX XX XX XX.