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    (yet another) IPsec throughput help request

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      SpaceBass @michmoor
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      @michmoor
      Thanks for the tip - unfortunately, it didn't make any difference in my case.

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        michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @SpaceBass
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        @SpaceBass In that case whats the hardware on each site terminating the VPN tunnel?
        Seems perhaps there is a limitation there

        Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
        Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
        Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
        Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
        JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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          SpaceBass @michmoor
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          @michmoor

          Europe: 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2386G CPU @ 3.50GHz with 128gb RAM, SSD ZFS Raid 1

          US: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v5 @ 3.60GHz with 64gb RAM, SSD ZFS raid 1

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            michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @SpaceBass
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            @SpaceBass Intel NICs?

            Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
            Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
            Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
            Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
            JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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              SpaceBass @michmoor
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              @michmoor
              thanks for the continued troubleshooting help!

              US - intel bare metal
              Europe - VirtIO, host NIC in Intel

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                pete35 @SpaceBass
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                @SpaceBass

                You may try to adjust your MTU/MSS Settings on both sides equally to exactly these numbers here:

                cb49bff4-31a9-43bc-b70d-bd1e2f2e170f-image.png

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                <a href="https://carsonlam.ca">slot88</a>

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                  SpaceBass @pete35
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                  @pete35 I dont (currently) use an interface for ipsec

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                    michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @SpaceBass
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                    @SpaceBass Do you have any Cryptographic Acceleration? Is it on?

                    Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
                    Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                    Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                    Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
                    JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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                      SpaceBass @michmoor
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                      @michmoor AES-NI, yes it is active on both pfSense machines

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                        pete35 @SpaceBass
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                        @SpaceBass

                        you can try to set MSS Clamping under system/advanced/firewall&Nat

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                        Why dont you use routed vti?

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                          NOCling
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                          For Tunnel mode MSS 1328 is most effective:
                          https://packetpushers.net/ipsec-bandwidth-overhead-using-aes/

                          Netgate 6100 & Netgate 2100

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                            SpaceBass @NOCling
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                            @NOCling said in (yet another) IPsec throughput help request:

                            For Tunnel mode MSS 1328 is most effective:
                            https://packetpushers.net/ipsec-bandwidth-overhead-using-aes/

                            WOAH! Massive difference (in only one direction)...

                            From US -> Europe

                            [SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec   252 MBytes   211 Mbits/sec  9691             sender
                            [SUM]   0.00-10.20  sec   233 MBytes   192 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                            

                            Europe -> US

                            [SUM]   0.00-10.20  sec  22.0 MBytes  18.1 Mbits/sec    0             sender
                            [SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  20.5 MBytes  17.2 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                            
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                              NOCling
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                              Nice, but now you have to find a way to the paring jungle how it will work fast on both ways.
                              Looks like US -> EU runs a other way than EU -> US.

                              We talk about that, in our last meeting and the solution is not easy.
                              One Point is to use a Cloud Service Provider he is present on both sides and you can use the interconnect between this cloud instances.

                              Netgate 6100 & Netgate 2100

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                                SpaceBass @NOCling
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                                @NOCling and unfortunately my success was very short-lived ...
                                It looks like iperf3 traffic is still improved, but I'm moving data at 500kB/s - 1.50MB/s

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                                  michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @SpaceBass
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                                  @SpaceBass if you temp switch to Wireguard does the issue follow?
                                  If it does it may not be MTU related.

                                  Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
                                  Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                  Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
                                  Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
                                  JNCIP,CCNP Enterprise

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                                    NOCling
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                                    How do you move your Data?
                                    SMB is a very bad decision for high latency ways, you need rsync or other wan optimized protocols.

                                    Netgate 6100 & Netgate 2100

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                                      SpaceBass @NOCling
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                                      @NOCling said in (yet another) IPsec throughput help request:

                                      How do you move your Data?

                                      rsync - have tried both an NFSv4 mount and over ssh (for testing purpose)

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