Argus wrote:
Any performance figures for Roadshow on 68K available? I mean for the varous cpus out there (68030, 040, 060).
I haven't tested it on a plain '030 system yet. My typical test machines were an A3000T with a WarpEngine '040 board and an A3000UX with a CyberStorm '060. Compared to both AmiTCP Genesis and Miami/Miami Deluxe (with and without the special MNI drivers) Roadshow outperformed the competition by quite a bit. In a LAN with a 10 MBit Ethernet card (the original Ariadne, as made by Village Tronic) I got a sustained data transmission speed of 977 KBytes/s out of the A3000T and up to 941 KBytes/s out of the A3000UX. AmiTCP Genesis and Miami/Miami Deluxe never got to more than 820 KBytes/s on the same hardware.
To a good part the memory performance is responsible for how fast you can move data around, which is why the A3000T with the WarpEngine is faster than the A3000UX with the CyberStorm. But it also helps how the I/O handling inside the TCP/IP stack is designed and how high the overall processing overhead is. The Ariadne also has a very large transmission FIFO, which is a luxury the newer cards such as the Ariadne II or the X-Surf don't have.
Good news if it becomes available for sale.
Getting closer and closer. I never imagined how difficult it would be to get a product out like this. All that's missing is the GUI for managing the dial-up and DSL connections. The manual's ready (it covers the entire functionality, and even has a chapter on the firewall and NAT, with examples and a tutorial), the SDK is ready, the software has been ready for a very long time, the web site's there (
www.roadster-tcpip.com) but it's still not online.
If you want to help in getting the product on the street this year, hassle the web master ;-)
