OpenWRT - Realtek RTL8125B 2.5GbE Network Adapter Overview & Testing

Опубликовано: 08 Январь 2023
на канале: Van Tech Corner

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In this video, let's take a look at the Realtek RTL8125B 100/1000/2500 Mbps PCIe Ethernet Adapter and test it out with OpenWRT.
For the test, I used the Zimaboard with the original 36W power adapter. OpenWRT x86 is installed on the USB drive and everything has been working great.
The driver/kernel package for the RTL8125B is already available on OpenWRT 23.03 stable release and the network interface was automatically configured. With a LAN to LAN test using iperf3, I got 2.35 Gbps throughput with just 7.4W of power consumption. The iperf3 test in reversed mode is slower when running in 4 streams, after reduced to single stream, it gives 1.8Gbps throughput.

Video timeframe:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Unboxing the RTL8125B 2.5GbE Network Adapter (IOCREST)
02:51 - Boot up OpenWRT on the Zimaboard, with the RTL8125B
04:56 - Check out the Network Intefaces on LuCI
06:22 - Setup WAN port and install packages for the test (iperf3, bmon)
07:57 - RLT8125 iperf3 Test (LAN to LAN)
08:20 - RLT8125 iperf3 Test (Reversed - Multi streams)
08:57 - RLT8125 iperf3 Test (Reversed - Single stream)
09:39 - RLT8125 2.5GbE Adapter Power Consumption Test (with Zimaboard)
11:32 - RLT8125 Power Consumption (iperf3)
13:18 - RLT8125 Power Consumption (iperf3 - SW Offloading)

That will be all for this video. I hope you enjoy it.
Below are the URL to the products, some of the links are affiliate (you are not payping more when purchase from these links)
- The Zimaboard - https://bit.ly/3yIP80X
- Realtek RTL8125B 2.5GbE Adapter (Single port) - https://amzn.to/3CAzarl
- Realtek RTL8125B 2.5GbE Adapter (Quad port) - https://amzn.to/3GM1w4w

Thanks for watching and see you!