Best router / router firmware to use with cgminer

[jamesg]

Hello fellow bitcoiners,

I have started to migrate over to cgminer and have found that my router cannot handle all of the extra traffic that cgminer generates. I currently have a cisco wrv210 (small business) router and wanted to get others opinions on what router and firmware you are using to handle the traffic cgminer creates. I am running 32Gh right now and it will so grow to double this so I need a pretty robust solution.

Also, if you have any cgminer specific optimizations around network traffic, I would like to hear about them also.

Best,
gigavps

[NetworkerZ]

What is the connection speed at the moment? How high is the throuput cgminer produces at the moment? What throuput would you need with ~60 GHash?

Greetz
NetworkerZ

[grue]

i don't think that wrv210 can even handle custom firmwares.

all miners behave the same way when it comes to connections. 1 constant longpoll connection + a few http GET. If i were you, i would get a high quality network switch that can handle all the persistent connections. a better internet connection wouldn't hurt either.

[jamesg]

i don't think that wrv210 can even handle custom firmwares.

all miners behave the same way when it comes to connections. 1 constant longpoll connection + a few http GET. If i were you, i would get a high quality network switch that can handle all the persistent connections. a better internet connection wouldn't hurt either.

Is there specific router / switch hardware you would recommend?

[jamesg]

What is the connection speed at the moment? How high is the throuput cgminer produces at the moment? What throuput would you need with ~60 GHash?

Greetz
NetworkerZ

I am assuming you are asking about my internet connection speed? Currently it is 2Mb up and 1Mb down. I am not that skilled in network analysis and have not researched what is needed to look at the network traffic.

[kokjo]

go solo?

pros:
does not generate a lot of (internet-)network traffic. only LAN traffic.

cons:
higher variance.

[grue]

What is the connection speed at the moment? How high is the throuput cgminer produces at the moment? What throuput would you need with ~60 GHash?

Greetz
NetworkerZ

I am assuming you are asking about my internet connection speed? Currently it is 2Mb up and 1Mb down. I am not that skilled in network analysis and have not researched what is needed to look at the network traffic.

i'm guessing it's megabytes (not megabits) right? see if your router can log the bandwidth used + # of connections.

go solo?

pros:
does not generate a lot of (internet-)network traffic. only LAN traffic.

cons:
higher variance.

2 days per block isn't too bad.

[malevolent]

i'm guessing it's megabytes (not megabits) right? see if your router can log the bandwidth used + # of connections.

When you order Internet connection service the ISP usually provides the speed in Mb not MB.

[despoiler]

i'm guessing it's megabytes (not megabits) right? see if your router can log the bandwidth used + # of connections.

When you order Internet connection service the ISP usually provides the speed in Mb not MB.

Bandwidth is listed in Mb.  Storage sizes are listed in MB. 

[BCMan]

i'm guessing it's megabytes (not megabits) right? see if your router can log the bandwidth used + # of connections.

When you order Internet connection service the ISP usually provides the speed in Mb not MB.

Bandwidth is listed in Mb.  Storage sizes are listed in MB.  

Usually MB means megabyte, Mb=megabit, for bandwidth as well.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB
 And as for router I can recommend D-Link brand. Even mine cheap D-Link DIR-615 working without probs by downloading\uploading for example, torrent, with 350 connections and 5-6 MB/s.

[bangra]

Happy with my Draytek 2820 but maybe with 60GHash it might be worth looking at having an additional connection added and load balance it all, would provide a failover also as having that much kit idling due to no internet would still burn a fair bit of power

[Unacceptable]

My residential connection is 6mb down & 3 mb up.You need to upgrade your connection at least.

As for hardware,I'm not familar with buisness class,sorry

[NetworkerZ]

First thing I would do is get to know how much traffic one RIG produces in 24 hours. If you get this, post it here.

Greetz

NetworkerZ

[trouserless]

Hello fellow bitcoiners,

I have started to migrate over to cgminer and have found that my router cannot handle all of the extra traffic that cgminer generates. I currently have a cisco wrv210 (small business) router and wanted to get others opinions on what router and firmware you are using to handle the traffic cgminer creates. I am running 32Gh right now and it will so grow to double this so I need a pretty robust solution.

Also, if you have any cgminer specific optimizations around network traffic, I would like to hear about them also.

Best,
gigavps

What are you seeing that leads to you think the router is the problem?  Can you describe the problems you are seeing since your switch to cgminer?  Your router has 10/100 full duplex LAN ports that according to Cisco can support 93Mb of NATed traffic (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9923/ps9929/data_sheet_c78-502735.html) which is 91Mb more than your uplink can handle ;-)  I agree with the previous posts about the uplink being the problem, not the router.

IIRC you've got a giant farm of miners...how many switches are you chaining together that eventually NAT through this one?  That may be some of the problem (routing loops, poor cables, bad crimp jobs).

I also think you might want to look into solo mining too...I'm doing calculations with my paltry 3GH/s...variance for you would not be noticeable!

[grue]

if it's megabits, then it's too little.

First thing I would do is get to know how much traffic one RIG produces in 24 hours. If you get this, post it here.

Greetz

NetworkerZ

or use taskmanager and look at the network graph

[trouserless]

if it's megabits, then it's too little.

First thing I would do is get to know how much traffic one RIG produces in 24 hours. If you get this, post it here.

Greetz

NetworkerZ

or use taskmanager and look at the network graph

that's the ticket...hop on the command line of one of your rigs and check the interface (sudo ifconfig).  It will look something like this:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:22:dd:e6:11  
          inet addr:192.168.1.221  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:22ff:fedd:e611/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1617742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1807687 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:321397347 (306.5 MiB)  TX bytes:301513754 (287.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc000 

So this system has been up for 3 days (uptime) and has sent and received roughly 300Mb, or roughly 100Mb/day running bamt.  Average that out over a day at around 1100b/s and I could sustain 900 miners on 1Mb.

What else are you running on this LAN?  A lot of chatter could fill up tables internal to the router...

What

[trouserless]

So this system has been up for 3 days (uptime) and has sent and received roughly 300Mb, or roughly 100Mb/day running bamt.  Average that out over a day at around 1100b/s and I could sustain 900 miners on 1Mb.

100 (megabytes per day) = 0.00925925926 megabits per second per miner
Miners/megabit downstream = 1 / 0.00925925926 = ~108 miners/1mbps downstream

And that would saturate the connection, so you'd never get that. I suspect some of your traffic is the BAMT monitoring daemon or local http traffic, though.

ahhh you are so right...bitten by the old Mb/MB mistake when it clearly says "RX bytes".  thx

[BkkCoins]

You're most likely seeing problems with open connections / NAT tables rather than bandwidth. I'd just configure a few of your miners to act as routers as well. How many machines do you have running Linux? Linux is dead simple to configure as a router. Only a few commands and config so it starts on boot.

If you config'd one machine out of 8 to be a router then the NAT tables for that group would be reduced to only one entry on the "master" router. The master router can just aggregate the Linux routers.

Anyway, if you want something independent - I set up a miniITX board as an Ubuntu router with  Gigabit ports. It can handle huge amounts of traffic with thousands of open connections without problems. Much more than eg. my Linksys WRT54GL, which can only handle 100-200 open connections before bogging down (tested with BitTorrent).

Any spare board and an extra LAN card can be setup as a router this way.

[jamesg]

You're most likely seeing problems with open connections / NAT tables rather than bandwidth. I'd just configure a few of your miners to act as routers as well. How many machines do you have running Linux? Linux is dead simple to configure as a router. Only a few commands and config so it starts on boot.

If you config'd one machine out of 8 to be a router then the NAT tables for that group would be reduced to only one entry on the "master" router. The master router can just aggregate the Linux routers.

Anyway, if you want something independent - I set up a miniITX board as an Ubuntu router with  Gigabit ports. It can handle huge amounts of traffic with thousands of open connections without problems. Much more than eg. my Linksys WRT54GL, which can only handle 100-200 open connections before bogging down (tested with BitTorrent).

Any spare board and an extra LAN card can be setup as a router this way.

Hey BkkCoins, I have 18 rigs right now running linux. I have two switches, which each have a port going to the router.

I also think you are correct on the open connections.

jimbit recommended tomato on a compatible router. Per the FAQ, it can handle 4096 open connections. I think I'll be doing this.

[gnar1ta$]

New cgminer flag for slower routers will be in new release --net-delay might solve it for free.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg709736#msg709736