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    (yet another) IPsec throughput help request

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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

                    a396fc11-82a3-41bd-aa89-1837acbd783f-image.png

                    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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