Slow speed from pfSense to pfSense on 10GbE WAN
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I have pfSense (2.6.0) installed at two sites, both have 10GbE WAN and 10GbE LAN, same ISP (Cogent)
pfSense is running as a VMware VM at both sites with vmxnet3 adapter type, consistently low CPU usage.
When I run iperf in pfSense, I get something like 54Mbps site to site, no matter the window
If I connect a VM on same host/vSwitch (Kali) directly to the IP/port at both locations, I can push 2.5Gbps with iperf.ISP suggests that speed/duplex need to be set manually, not autonegotiate, however pfSense is not providing me the opportunity to do so.
Does anybody have any insight or suggestions?
THX,
-John -
@unsichtbarre said in Slow speed from pfSense to pfSense on 10GbE WAN:
When I run iperf in pfSense
pfsense is a firewall designed to optimise traffic through it not to/from it.
To test performance you need to run iperf on separate machines.However 54Mbps is slow, suggesting something else is wrong as well
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First try setting the values shown here so you get multiqueues on the NICs:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#vmware-vmx-4-interfacesSteve
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@stephenw10 Thanks Steve, I believe that this is the first place I will go.
-John
