Poor performance with pfsense
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What kind of installation are you running ?
Bare metal ? Virtualized ?
What version of pfsense is this ?
1.2.3 ? 2.0Beta?
How is the WAN configured ?
Bridged ? Nat'ed ?
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Hi,
It's an 1.2.3 running on its own machine.
The wan is NATed. It's has been a pretty straightforward installation.
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Pinto? Fiat? Porsche?
What are the specs of your box that you are running pfSense on?
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
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This kind of degradation sounds like maybe an ethernet autonegotiation issue. What do you see if you do 'ifconfig xxx', where xxx is the WAN nic? (the LAN too, I guess, it might be speed issue talking to the pfsense not going upstream.)
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Here is the output of the ifconfigs:
# ifconfig re0 re0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=389b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic>ether 00:08:a1:7b:16:6e inet6 fe80::208:a1ff:fe7b:166e%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.0.103 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active # ifconfig em0 em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:08:74:1a:59:5f inet 10.42.0.254 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.42.255.255 inet6 fe80::208:74ff:fe1a:595f%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active</full-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></half-duplex></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_ucast,wol_mcast,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
The host is a DellGX280 with P4 2.4Ghz with 1G mem.
I think it should be sufficent for the purpose.
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How about netstat -I on each interface?
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Here the output:
# netstat -I re0 Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll re0 1500 <link#1>00:08:a1:7b:16:6e 10185120 0 7024550 0 0 re0 1500 fe80:1::208:a fe80:1::208:a1ff: 0 - 1 - - re0 1500 192.168.0.0 192.168.0.103 26481 - 36633 - - # netstat -I em0 Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll em0 1500 <link#5>00:08:74:1a:59:5f 7526432 0 10693799 0 0 em0 1500 10.42.0.0 pfsense 585160 - 597030 - - em0 1500 fe80:5::208:7 fe80:5::208:74ff: 0 - 1 - -</link#5></link#1>
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Hmmm, well doesn't look like an ethernet issue :( For your speeds, are you meaing KB/sec (kilobytes?)
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Yes, it's Kilobytes per seconds.
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(10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>)</half-duplex>
This catches my eye… Are you forcing this on the computer end?
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I didn't. I guess it's the Netopia 4541 router on the WAN end which bring this. There is no option in the menus to act on this.