Does pfsense still have throughput issues on VMWare varients?

namezero · Jun 27, 2006, 9:49 AM

I notice that VMWare after March 2006 has e1000 interfaces.

By using e1000, can we avoid throughput problems mentioned below? Thanks.

I'm using VMWare workstation 5.5 on top of XP.

This is for testing only as the LNC interfaces that are emulated are still BGL locked and performance sucks.

It's great for testing, however.

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http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=281.0

hoba · Jun 27, 2006, 10:15 AM

Afaik, this is still the same.

namezero · Jun 27, 2006, 9:26 PM

Does that mean it's not good to put pfsense + VMWare on production environment, e.g. a wireless captive portal site? Thanks.

sullrich · Jun 27, 2006, 9:45 PM

It all depends on your environment, how much wan speed, etc.

You should test such a situation instead of asking us. Only you can deterimine what is good for you're environment.

namezero · Jun 28, 2006, 1:10 AM

Will report back in two days.

sullrich · Jun 28, 2006, 2:16 AM

@namezero:

Will report back in two days.

Good luck and be sure to edit the .vmx file and change the nic type out to e1000