Installing pfSense on XG105Rev3

sysadminfromhell

@stephenw10 no nothing was forced before.

sysadminfromhell

@netblues yes i checked everything and even changed the cables of the hosts and the switch to the pfsense but the problem remains

stephenw10

Errors shown on the interfaces?

Throttling to 3Mbps almost has to be something at layer 1....

sysadminfromhell

@stephenw10 where I can check that?

stephenw10

In Status > Interfaces is easiest.

sysadminfromhell

@stephenw10 no errors in/out

sysadminfromhell

@stephenw10 good morning, I changed the igb from 2 to 3 to check if the port is damaged/broken but the problem remains the same. I will do the following today:
As this subnet has the same as the ISP router gives the pesense gives igb0 (172.16.1.10/29) I will change this subnet from the ISP to something else like 10.0.1.0/29 or something like this and see if this problem remains. I do not know if this interfering in any way but let’s see, shall we?

Edit: I updated the subnet from the ISP router to: 10.0.1.252/30 so the igb0 now has the IP 10.0.1.254. I testet the performance and Download is now OK (300 MBit - 980MBit) but Upload remains the same problem: 3,14MBit/s.

stephenw10

Hmm, OK changing the WAN subnet should make absolutely no difference to traffic between internal subnets unless there were a conflict caused by dhcp.
So that suggests something is not configured as expected. Like those interfaces are somehow linked via some other path. Are they bridged? Are they even direct ports on that device?

Steve

sysadminfromhell

@stephenw10 so haft day through, i found the problem.
It was a faulty NIC driver on windows maschine what made the Upload internal so slow.
I do not know why but i ended up reinstalling windows 11 and now everythings looks fine:

.\iperf3.exe -c 172.16.24.100 -t 10
Connecting to host 172.16.24.100, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.178.110 port 64862 connected to 172.16.24.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   950 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.01   sec  74.9 MBytes   624 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.01-3.00   sec  68.5 MBytes   579 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  93.1 MBytes   781 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   113 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   113 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   113 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  90.4 MBytes   759 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  76.2 MBytes   639 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   969 MBytes   813 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   969 MBytes   813 Mbits/sec                  receiver

.\iperf3.exe -c 172.16.24.100 -t 10 -R
Connecting to host 172.16.24.100, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host 172.16.24.100 is sending
[  4] local 192.168.178.110 port 64879 connected to 172.16.24.100 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.01   sec  45.1 MBytes   373 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.01-2.00   sec   107 MBytes   909 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   101 MBytes   846 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  53.2 MBytes   446 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  54.7 MBytes   459 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   923 MBytes   774 Mbits/sec    4             sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec   922 MBytes   774 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Thanks for the help!

stephenw10

Ah, nice find!