9Mbit Limit - ESXi 5 - vSwitch/PfSense 2.0.1

dLockers

Traffic shaping is not enabled by default within pfSense. Though, have you installed the VMWare software/tool from the packages?

Yes I have installed VMWare Tools using the package and the vmxnet_load thing is in loader.conf

Maybe if I install it from the CD?

Edit; But I get the problem using vt-d passthrough of the NIC as well, so I can't see it being that.

dLockers

Bump!

Help save the environment and fix this with me! Saves another dedicated box!

biggsy

Someone please correct me if this is wrong but I think a mismatch, between autonegotiate on one end and and fixed 100 full on the other, may not show up as collisions or other errors but the physical NICs could be forced down to 10Mb/s (and maybe even half duplex) - the lowest common denominator.

Could you build another VM on vSwitch1 (maybe a WHS) and see how it does talking direct to the WAN
Can you set the interface speed on the modem or is it just auto?
I couldn't tell from your earlier response whether you had tried changing the physical LAN cable to the modem.
Tried reversing the NICs between the two vSwitches? If only to rule out a faulty NIC.

Maybe clutching at straws now but I can't help thinking there will be a lower layer answer to this.

Still thinking :)

dLockers

Maybe someone running ESXI can post their example configs?

I am going to try ipcop/smoothwall or something tonight and see if I can get that working at full speed.

They are all surprisingly more difficult to install compared to pfsense though.

Supermule

Try M0n0wall instead….easy peasy top install and get up running!

dLockers

Monowall - same symptons.

What the hell is going on here!

johnpoz

What I can tell you is I am running 32bit on esxi 5 with e1000, was running vmxnet3 but ran into a weird snag with making ipsec vpn connection to outside server from a client on the local network.. Have not had time to work that out yet, but going back to e1000 nics and working fine.

Running the same version of esxi 5 as you. But running 2.1 version of pfsense

2.1-BETA0 (i386)
built on Fri Jun 8 00:26:36 EDT 2012
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p2

With gitsync of a couple of days ago.

Here is my my traffic graph showing some downloads earlier - you can clearly see hitting my around 16Mbps limit.

Oh and this is on some really CHEAP hardware!! HP N40L box, running multiple VMs one being my router. With a cheapass $35 secondary nic being used for the wan connection.

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Metu69salemi

@johnpoz:

Oh and this is on some really CHEAP hardware!! HP N40L box, running multiple VMs one being my router. With a cheapass $35 secondary nic being used for the wan connection.

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Thank you about this post. I was puzzled if ESXi v5 would work with HP microserver, i think i got my answer
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podilarius

I have a test one running on a Dell R710 with dell optimizations for ESX. I am getting 53.39 MBits down and 8.59 Mbits up on a moderately used connection (50/10 Cable Connection from Comcast). I am using E1000 nics. I am also double NATing and I don't have any problems. I think it has something to do with your ESX setup.

dLockers

FML.

I had my Killer E2100 NIC set to 10Mbps.