Slow throughput on WAN through PFSense
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I would change your NICS out and use genuine Intel NICS.
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I've tried 3Com, Linksys, and put the LAN on an old Intel NIC, but they all seem about the same. My current config has three Linksys NICs. Is that something that would really kill the bandwidth that much? Also, do you think the problem persists across all three of the vendors I've tried? If it is the NICs it won't be hard to go find a decent NIC on eBay.
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I would use ALL intel Nics, not mixing and matching. And yes, I would not personally trust linksys NICS under FreeBSD.
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Are there any other ideas before I pull these NICs and order off ebay? Also, any recommendation for specific NICs from Intel? I'm not looking for huge throughput. Just about 30 (not all on all the time) machines connecting to a 7mbps cable modem and a few VPN clients connecting to a DSL.
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Intel(R) PRO/1000
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Does the Intel Pro/100 S give significant gain for IPSec VPN encryption? Also, would it be okay to run one Pro/100 S say for the VPN connection and a couple regular desktop NICs for the LAN and regular WAN?
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I would use matched NICS, really. And no, the nics will not add throughput to your VPN other than being a cleaner "nic" for FreeBSD.
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The Server NIC has onboard IPSec encryption offloading.
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The Server NIC has onboard IPSec encryption offloading.
I don't think that is supported, sorry.
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I appreciate all of your guy's help. I had heard that the support forum for PFSense is one of its greatest features. I heard right! I'll try a few new cards and report back with the results.
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I would still check your speed/duplex, try forcing it to 100/full or auto, or even 10/full. It looks like your problem is just that. If not, try and get your hand on some intel cards. We use all netgear NICS in all our setups, with management being onboard/intel and they all work fine for us. We use different Nortel switches with no problems.
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Forgot about this thread. I put in four Intel cards from ebay and haven't seen a problem since!
Thanks for all of your help!