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    (yet another) IPsec throughput help request

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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:

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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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