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    PFSense 1.2.2 - 30MB Fiber Link - Uploads are being limited to between 3-10MB.

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    • J
      jmcvay
      last edited by

      Some more oddities.

      We sent out an email to a  very large amount of individuals on Friday's and I noticed my bandwidth meter's transmit going through the roof.

      It was actually capping around 13Mbps (Our fiber is supposed to cap at 10Mbps)

      I cannot replicate this on speedtest.net or speakeasy.net.

      Another oddity is that we have 4 interfaces. WAN, LAN, DMZ, and Wireless.

      WAN and LAN are pretty self explanatory.

      I have the DMZ setup for Webserver with a public IP, and restrict the DMZ from accessing the LAN.

      The Wireless interface connects directly to a LAN port on an old Westell Wireless HUB.

      The DMZ and Wireless interfaces use the same make/model NIC.

      I connected my laptop the the WLAN and ran a speedtest, and low and behold I am hitting close to our 10Mbps.

      Some details:

      ISP Router - Set for 100FDx

      Cross Over cable directly connected between ISP Router and WAN Interface.

      WAN
      bge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
             options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex>status: active

      LAN
      bge1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
             options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:22:19:d5:ee:93
             inet 192.168.168.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.168.255
             inet6 fe80::222:19ff:fed5:ee93%bge1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
             media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
             status: active

      DMZ
      em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
             options=19b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,tso4>ether 00:1b:21:39:55:c1
             inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
             inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe39:55c1%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
             media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
             status: active

      WIRELESS
      em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
             options=19b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,tso4>ether 00:1b:21:39:57:73
             inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe39:5773%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
             inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
             media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
             status: active

      LAN is connected to a Managed HP ProCurve Switch 2810-24G with Duplex settings set to Auto.</full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,tso4></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,tso4></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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      • J
        jmcvay
        last edited by

        Another update, this appears to only be affecting HTTP Upstream.

        SMTP and FTP are able to consistently hit our upstream cap and maintain it.

        What would be causing only HTTP to perform subpar? We have tested with QoS disabled, and QoS enabled with everything as default and HTTP set to higher priority, no difference.

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          danswartz
          last edited by

          Hmmm, I assume this is bulk SMTP and/or FTP traffic?  What kind of traffic is the HTTP?  Is it bulk too?  Or lots of smaller packets?  Maybe a limitation on the number of packets/sec you can push thru?

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          • J
            jmcvay
            last edited by

            The email I described was likely 2MB in size, but was sent to about 800 recipients.

            The FTP and HTTP test consisted of uploading the same 1GB file to a hosting company I use. FTP thru FileZilla and HTTP through cPanel.

            FTP hits cap, but HTTP still struggles around 1.5-3Mbps just as illustrated on Speedtest.net and Speakeasy.net.

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              danswartz
              last edited by

              Is it possible to try a different http client?  It would eliminate questions about, say, send window size or whatever…

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              • J
                jmcvay
                last edited by

                I've run the speedtest.net, speakeasy.net, and a cPanel upload in both IE and Firefox.  :-\

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                  danswartz
                  last edited by

                  Oh, sorry, was going by the comment about the http test being via cpanel.

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                  • D
                    danswartz
                    last edited by

                    I guess without seeing a wireshark capture, it's really hard to suggest anything more…

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                      Efonnes
                      last edited by

                      Are you using any kind of HTTP proxy? (like squid, for example)

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                      • J
                        jmcvay
                        last edited by

                        I had installed squid at one point in time, but removed it.

                        I'm almost wondering if one of my packages didn't uninstall properly. I currently do not have any packages installed. I will be performing a fresh install this coming Friday when I have a maintenance window. If I exhibit the same symptoms I may give the BETA a try.

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