Bandwith Pfsense APU2 C2

bartounet16000

Hello.
I am French and currently in ADSL 10Mbits / s
I have a PFSENSE installed on an APU 2 C2 card
AMD GX-412TC CPU / 2 GB DRAM
No problem for my connection

On the other hand, I will soon switch to fiber at 1Gbit / s and I am afraid that the router will not follow.

When I carry out an IPERF between 2 machines on 2 different ports of PFSENSE (routed by PFSENSE) I do not reach the gigabit.

root @ debian: ~ # iperf -w1M -c 172.30.0.1

Client connecting to 172.30.0.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 416 KByte (WARNING: requested 1.00 MByte)

[3] local 10.0.0.231 port 45456 connected with 172.30.0.1 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[3] 0.0-10.9 sec 354 MBytes 271 Mbits / sec

It is better if I do multisession
root @ debian: ~ # iperf -w1M -c 172.30.0.1 -P4

Client connecting to 172.30.0.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 416 KByte (WARNING: requested 1.00 MByte)

[4] local 10.0.0.231 port 45464 connected with 172.30.0.1 port 5001
[3] local 10.0.0.231 port 45462 connected with 172.30.0.1 port 5001
[5] local 10.0.0.231 port 45466 connected with 172.30.0.1 port 5001
[6] local 10.0.0.231 port 45468 connected with 172.30.0.1 port 5001
[ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[4] 0.0-10.0 sec 220 MBytes 184 Mbits / sec
[3] 0.0-10.0 sec 320 MBytes 268 Mbits / sec
[6] 0.0-10.0 sec 237 MBytes 199 Mbits / sec
[5] 0.0-10.0 sec 336 MBytes 281 Mbits / sec
[SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 932 Mbits / sec

Do you think that this is a limitation of the APU2 C2 card on single session?

stephenw10

Yes, the APU2 cannot pass 1G under pfSense/FreeBSD for a single connection.

With some tuning you can get closer to it though. See:
https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-throughput-pfsense/

Steve