I've always assumed that the gigabit in GbE meant 1000Mbps.
But https://www.wireguard.com/performance/ shows numbers higher than that, and https://blog.ipfire.org/post/why-not-wireguard, which criticizes the methodology of the first link, also seems to assume 1024Mbps?
1 Gb is 125 Megabytes or 1000 Megabits
1 GB is 1000 Megabytes or 8000 Megabits
GB means "Gigabyte" and Gb means "Gigabit" different things,
I guess my question is more about gigabit versus gibibit, if that makes any sense.
@casualwp 1 gibibyte is 2^30 bytes about ~1,073 megabytes.
Yeah, but since the G in GbE stands for gigabit, I've always assumed it to be 1000Mb/s. So I have no idea where the >1000 numbers in the links come from :/
@casualwp Im confused WireGuard is a VPN not a GbE card... so why would you be suprised it can go above 1 GbE?
The testing configuration seems to indicate that gigabit ethernet cards are used?
AFAIK there is no compression by WG, and the main dev has been really against it, e.g., https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-July/001594.html .
(Also, iperf3 traffic should be very low-entropy and thus *extremely* compressible :P )