Slow Vlan-Vlan Performance on c2758 (Supermicro 5018A-FTN4)
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Brief Summary
I am only receiving ~500 mbit/s on iperf from the pfsense LAN NIC to a client on the LAN side. Any ideas what is wrong? Lots more detail below. Thanks so much for your help.
Description of Network
High-level overview of network:
WAN -> pfsense -> juniper ex2200 switch -> clients
OS: pfsense 2.3
Hardware: Supermicro 5018A-FTN4 and 8 gigs of dual channel ECC ram
One PCI-e Intel PRO/1000 PT dual port: one port is dedicated to WAN, the other is for dedicated management access
4x onboard igb NICs are in a LAGG on LAN side
4X LAN NICs are in LAGG to Juniper switch with Juniper switch being in active LACP mode.
There are 7 VLANs. I understand this is a Layer3 switch, but I am not using the Layer3 services (still learning how to use the switch). At the moment, all VLAN-VLAN traffic is routed, not switched. With 4x NICs in the LAGG, I thought this was fine until I learn how to use the switch at Layer3.
_(http://imgur.com/J7VLlBX)
The only packages I'm running is openVPN export, iperf, and pfblockerNG
Description of Problem
Everything functions as intended, but I noticed that
(1) SMB copies between VLANs are only 65 MB/s and
(2) an iperf test to the LAGG shows that a pfsense tests at 500 mbits/s when pfsense LAN-side is the server (and a LAN-client is the client)
(3) 700 mbit/s when pfsense is the client (and another linux computer is server), and
(4) 3.7 Gigabits/s from LAN to WAN
Question
Why are VLAN-VLAN transfers slow? I understand that pfsense is routing instead of switching, but it should be capable of achieving the full gigabit, right? 500 mbits seems like a configuration issue to me.
Thank you for your help! Please let me know if I can provide any more information.
**iperf data below **
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(1) LAN to WAN[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -B EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED
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Server listening on TCP port 5001
Binding to local address EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED
TCP window size: 63.7 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.29 GBytes 3.68 Gbits/sec[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -B 192.168.10.1 -c EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED, TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.10.1
TCP window size: 63.8 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with EXTERNAL_WAN_IP_REDACTED port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.29 GBytes 3.68 Gbits/sec(2) DebLab
[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -B 192.168.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.10.1
TCP window size: 63.7 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 35507
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 669 MBytes 558 Mbits/secUSERNAME_REDACTED@DebLab:~$ iperf -c 192.168.10.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.10.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.10.66 port 35507 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 669 MBytes 560 Mbits/sec(3) Chewy
[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -B 192.168.70.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.70.1
TCP window size: 63.7 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.70.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.70.10 port 46337
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 585 MBytes 488 Mbits/secUSERNAME_REDACTED@chewy:~$ iperf -c 192.168.70.1
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Client connecting to 192.168.70.1, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.70.10 port 46337 connected with 192.168.70.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 585 MBytes 490 Mbits/sec(4) Chewy UDP
USERNAME_REDACTED@chewy:~$ iperf -c 192.168.70.1 -u -b 1000m
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Client connecting to 192.168.70.1, UDP port 5001
Sending 1470 byte datagrams
UDP buffer size: 208 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 192.168.70.10 port 60311 connected with 192.168.70.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 970 MBytes 814 Mbits/sec
[ 3] Sent 692106 datagrams
[ 3] Server Report:
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 950 MBytes 797 Mbits/sec 0.014 ms 14552/692105 (2.1%)
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1 datagrams received out-of-order(5) Inter-VLAN
[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -B 192.168.70.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.70.1
TCP window size: 63.7 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local 192.168.70.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.29 GBytes 3.68 Gbits/sec[2.3-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -B 192.168.10.1 -c 192.168.70.1
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.70.1, TCP port 5001
Binding to local address 192.168.10.1
TCP window size: 63.8 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.70.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 4.29 GBytes 3.69 Gbits/sec_ -
did you enable powerD ? ( System/Advanced/Miscellaneous)
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Thanks for the reply. Yes - powerD is enabled and also MBUF has been raised to 1,000,000.
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couple of things I see which could be your problem (Or be no problem)
1. How fast hard the hard drives in the machines that you are testing? ~60 MB/s seems right.
2. The VLAN tags on your packet will take away from the payload which will lower your speeds
3. Try using SMBv3, there is a dramatic speed performance boost (Windows 8 + to Windows 8+ Server 2012R2 supports SMBv3 -
Thanks for the thoughts:
1. HDD speed is not the limiter. Copying to and from NVME SSD @ 2050MB/s on computer #1 and 4x RAID10 sata SSDs that reads at 1000 MB/s. I've tested it on a separate 10G line and I get about 700 megabytes per second (not megabits).
2. How much does VLAN tagging affect speed? Understood that a portion of the packet is occupied by the tag.
3. Good point re: sabma. That's why I wanted to test with iperf.
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Quick update on the matter.
I ran a separate iperf test on the interface reserved for management. This interface is unique because (1) it is not switched through the Juniper ex2200 and (2) it is on the Intel PRO/1000 PT card, not the onboard NICs.Speeds were roughly the same at 570 mbits/s. Although this does not solve any problem, it eliminates a few variables, which is useful.
Your advice is appreciated.
[2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -B 192.168.5.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 Binding to local address 192.168.5.1 TCP window size: 63.7 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.5.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.5.12 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 688 MBytes 575 Mbits/sec [ 5] local 192.168.5.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.5.12 port 43223 [ 5] 0.0-10.1 sec 681 MBytes 568 Mbits/secI am also showing data from "top -SH"
last pid: 42589; load averages: 0.97, 0.84, 0.59 up 0+00:23:49 17:55:45 235 processes: 16 running, 160 sleeping, 59 waiting CPU: 0.6% user, 0.0% nice, 19.8% system, 3.4% interrupt, 76.1% idle Mem: 105M Active, 47M Inact, 297M Wired, 208M Buf, 7419M Free Swap: 16G Total, 16G Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K CPU2 2 22:25 100.00% idle{idle: cpu2} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K CPU5 5 22:29 95.56% idle{idle: cpu5} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K RUN 6 21:34 95.36% idle{idle: cpu6} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K RUN 7 22:42 90.97% idle{idle: cpu7} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K CPU0 0 22:00 89.70% idle{idle: cpu0} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K RUN 4 22:02 76.86% idle{idle: cpu4} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K CPU3 3 22:05 63.96% idle{idle: cpu3} 11 root 155 ki31 0K 128K CPU1 1 22:02 55.76% idle{idle: cpu1} 98914 root 52 0 36548K 3456K CPU2 2 0:11 51.37% iperf{iperf} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K CPU6 6 0:17 46.78% kernel{igb0 que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 3 0:26 23.29% intr{irq262: igb0:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 3 0:03 4.88% intr{irq289: igb3:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K RUN 6 0:40 2.49% intr{irq283: igb2:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K CPU0 0 0:43 2.39% intr{irq277: igb2:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K RUN 6 0:34 2.10% intr{irq274: igb1:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K RUN 6 0:33 2.10% intr{irq265: igb0:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 5 0:32 2.10% intr{irq291: igb3:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 3 0:33 1.86% intr{irq280: igb2:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 0 0:19 0.88% intr{irq259: igb0:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 2 0:19 0.78% intr{irq270: igb1:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 2 0:17 0.59% intr{irq288: igb3:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 7 0:17 0.49% intr{irq284: igb2:que} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K - 1 0:51 0.00% kernel{igb0 que} 0 root -16 - 0K 736K swapin 4 0:48 0.00% kernel{swapper} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K - 0 0:39 0.00% kernel{em1 que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 2 0:19 0.00% intr{irq261: igb0:que} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K - 1 0:15 0.00% kernel{igb2 que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 4 0:11 0.00% intr{irq281: igb2:que} 12 root -60 - 0K 1024K WAIT 1 0:09 0.00% intr{swi4: clock} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K - 3 0:07 0.00% kernel{igb0 que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 5 0:03 0.00% intr{irq264: igb0:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 5 0:03 0.00% intr{irq273: igb1:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 3 0:03 0.00% intr{irq271: igb1:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 0 0:03 0.00% intr{irq268: igb1:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 6 0:03 0.00% intr{irq292: igb3:que} 53945 root 20 0 21616K 5752K select 0 0:02 0.00% openvpn 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 7 0:02 0.00% intr{irq293: igb3:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 4 0:02 0.00% intr{irq263: igb0:que} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 7 0:02 0.00% intr{irq275: igb1:que} 95329 root 20 0 224M 33636K nanslp 6 0:01 0.00% php 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 1 0:01 0.00% intr{irq278: igb2:que} 12 root -52 - 0K 1024K WAIT 3 0:01 0.00% intr{swi6: task queue} 12 root -92 - 0K 1024K WAIT 5 0:01 0.00% intr{irq282: igb2:que} 0 root -92 - 0K 736K - 7 0:01 0.00% kernel{em0 que} -
What kind of hardware are you running. It's interesting that when you ran the test from a port with no VLAN tagging you are seeing a 100 Mbps increase in performance. How ever I would believe that you would want to see something closer to wire speed. I will run the test on my hardware to see what I get. I am running a Core i5 with 4 GB of RAM. Also My LAN is built in and I'm using VLANs as well. I also have a intel dual port Gigabit PCI-e NIC.
I also have a Cisco Router 2821 with two Gigabit ports I will set up sub-interfaces on that router and then connect that to a gigabit switch and see what kind of speeds I get with that. I will run the iPerf test from Windows Server 2012 R2 and a Windows 10 machine with a core i5 processor as well. I should have the results in a day.
It will be interesting to see if I can get routing at wire speed?
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A cisco 2821 will not do line rate with routing.
This is simply seen a cpu with linux and some asics added for certain functions.
And the cpu is a 64 bit risc processor at 466 Mhz (http://pmcs.com/cgi-bin/download_p.pl?res_id=4607&filename=2020578_004405.pdf)For my work i have few hundred in the field, and there we use them up to 80 mbit/sec.
But we use QoS, some ACL's, BGP, ip sla and shaping.To add something usefull. I have tested with my supermicro a1sri-2758f pfsense from lan to wan with no packages and saw about line speed. (With version 2.2.4) that was with 2 of the onboard nics. Simply inserted the pfsense before my download pc to test all the pc applications.
Copy was from PC to NAS.A Lagg port will not load balance a single session per default. It will be one link only, unless you run a round robin algoritm. So test from station to station will per default use 1 link out of you group from 4.
A lagg would be usefull only with multiple stations going over it. Or windows with smb 3.. -
I also have a Cisco Router 2821 with two Gigabit ports
This is doing the real work in silicon, Cisco and other big vendors are often using ASICs or FPGAs
to do that job very fast and offloading many tasks from that CPU inside! That is not a real comparing
because pfSense is a pure software firewall. If you want to compare something likes this against a
pfSense machine go and buy a Chelsio adapter that is also owning a ASIC/FPGA on it.There are two different versions of the LAGs. One is using the LACP this is the dynamic one and the
other will be set up manual by hand and is the static one.But then you will be also able to set them up as active actice and active / passive and this might be
more important as you might be thinking about. If you are using active / passive it will be working
likes the following. If the first from 2 till 8 wires are broken or not working, the next one will be in
usage and so on. But if you now using the active / active method it is pending on the algorithm how
it works, because in normal the first of 2 till 8 wires or that line must be fully rendered or saturated
before the next one will be in usage!!!!!!!!!!!! So you have now 4 wire in usage and set them up as
2 sending and 2 receiving together with the round robin algorithm that is spreading all packets
consistently over all wires or lines in the LAG you will be seeing other numbers and reactions. -
Pfsense is set to lagg protocol "LACP"
And Juniper ex-2200 is set to "LACP active"
From what I can gather from the packet stats on Juniper, packets seems to flow somewhat evenly across all four lines. Yes, I am aware that 4x In LACP means up to four separate one gigabit connections, not one four-gigabit connection.
If anyone wants a few Juniper printouts / data/ commands, I can provide. I think the issue is my pfsense configuration, however.
I've run iperf with 4-5 different hosts now. All yield about the same result.
I was able to get a 100MB/s transfer over samba yesterday, but iperf is still showing 500mbit/s.
Any suggestions for what's going on?
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You test perhaps single session with iperf.
I did some testing between freebds nas serversiperf -c 192.168.3.153 -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10
iperf -s -P 0 -i 1 -p 5001 -f MThat increases the buffers somewhat, and got about 1GB/sec.
That was over 10GE nics on systems with E3-1220[root@zfsguru2 /]# iperf -c 192.168.3.153 -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.3.153, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 2.01 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.3.152 port 50742 connected with 192.168.3.153 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0- 1.0 sec 988 MBytes 988 MBytes/sec [ 3] 1.0- 2.0 sec 1052 MBytes 1052 MBytes/sec [ 3] 2.0- 3.0 sec 1135 MBytes 1135 MBytes/sec [ 3] 3.0- 4.0 sec 1183 MBytes 1183 MBytes/sec [ 3] 4.0- 5.0 sec 1075 MBytes 1075 MBytes/sec [ 3] 5.0- 6.0 sec 1181 MBytes 1181 MBytes/sec [ 3] 6.0- 7.0 sec 1180 MBytes 1180 MBytes/sec [ 3] 7.0- 8.0 sec 1179 MBytes 1179 MBytes/sec [ 3] 8.0- 9.0 sec 1180 MBytes 1180 MBytes/sec [ 3] 9.0-10.0 sec 1180 MBytes 1180 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 11346 MBytes 1134 MBytes/sec -
Thank you for the reply. I have replicated the test as follows:
[2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -P 0 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -B 192.168.10.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 Binding to local address 192.168.10.1 TCP window size: 0.06 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 35989 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 68.4 MBytes 68.4 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 68.6 MBytes 68.6 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 68.7 MBytes 68.7 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 68.4 MBytes 68.4 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 68.0 MBytes 68.0 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 68.1 MBytes 68.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 67.0 MBytes 67.0 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 68.1 MBytes 68.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 68.0 MBytes 68.0 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 68.5 MBytes 68.5 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 685 MBytes 68.2 MBytes/secXXXXXX@YYYYYY:~$ iperf -c 192.168.10.1 -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.10.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.10.66 port 35989 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0- 1.0 sec 71.1 MBytes 71.1 MBytes/sec [ 3] 1.0- 2.0 sec 69.1 MBytes 69.1 MBytes/sec [ 3] 2.0- 3.0 sec 69.2 MBytes 69.2 MBytes/sec [ 3] 3.0- 4.0 sec 67.4 MBytes 67.4 MBytes/sec [ 3] 4.0- 5.0 sec 68.8 MBytes 68.8 MBytes/sec [ 3] 5.0- 6.0 sec 68.1 MBytes 68.1 MBytes/sec [ 3] 6.0- 7.0 sec 66.2 MBytes 66.2 MBytes/sec [ 3] 7.0- 8.0 sec 68.4 MBytes 68.4 MBytes/sec [ 3] 8.0- 9.0 sec 68.5 MBytes 68.5 MBytes/sec [ 3] 9.0-10.0 sec 68.4 MBytes 68.4 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 685 MBytes 68.4 MBytes/secAnd going the other direction:
[2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -c 192.168.10.66 -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.10.66, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.06 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 192.168.10.1 port 36323 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0- 1.0 sec 104 MBytes 104 MBytes/sec [ 3] 1.0- 2.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 3] 2.0- 3.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 3] 3.0- 4.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 3] 4.0- 5.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 3] 5.0- 6.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 3] 6.0- 7.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 3] 7.0- 8.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 3] 8.0- 9.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 3] 9.0-10.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1071 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root:XXXXX@YYYYYY:~$ iperf -s -P 0 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.10.66 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 36323 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 102 MBytes 102 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 107 MBytes 107 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 108 MBytes 108 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1071 MBytes 107 MBytes/secRules for Management Link (192.168.5.XXX)
Rules for LAN (192.168.10.XXX)
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Ok still single thread.
Use -P 4 for 4 parrallel streams.
See http://www.jamescoyle.net/cheat-sheets/581-iperf-cheat-sheet
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I set the "-P 0" flag on the server and the "-P 4" flag on the client. Is that right?
With pfsense as server, I get 112 MBytes/s and with pfsense as client, I get 219 MBytes/s. That's strange…... I'm not sure how I even reached 219. To be honest, I'm not sure how to interpret these results.
With pfsense acting as server
[2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -s -P 0 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -B 192.168.10.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 Binding to local address 192.168.10.1 TCP window size: 0.06 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 35998 [ 5] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 35999 [ 7] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 36001 [ 6] local 192.168.10.1 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 36000 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 26.6 MBytes 26.6 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0- 1.0 sec 30.6 MBytes 30.6 MBytes/sec [ 7] 0.0- 1.0 sec 26.5 MBytes 26.5 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0- 1.0 sec 28.4 MBytes 28.4 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0- 1.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 26.8 MBytes 26.8 MBytes/sec [ 5] 1.0- 2.0 sec 30.6 MBytes 30.6 MBytes/sec [ 6] 1.0- 2.0 sec 29.1 MBytes 29.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 1.0- 2.0 sec 25.6 MBytes 25.6 MBytes/sec [SUM] 1.0- 2.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 5] 2.0- 3.0 sec 29.8 MBytes 29.8 MBytes/sec [ 7] 2.0- 3.0 sec 25.9 MBytes 25.9 MBytes/sec [ 6] 2.0- 3.0 sec 28.7 MBytes 28.7 MBytes/sec [SUM] 2.0- 3.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 26.7 MBytes 26.7 MBytes/sec [ 5] 3.0- 4.0 sec 29.1 MBytes 29.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 3.0- 4.0 sec 28.3 MBytes 28.3 MBytes/sec [ 6] 3.0- 4.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 3.0- 4.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 26.6 MBytes 26.6 MBytes/sec [ 5] 4.0- 5.0 sec 29.4 MBytes 29.4 MBytes/sec [ 7] 4.0- 5.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 4.0- 5.0 sec 27.9 MBytes 27.9 MBytes/sec [SUM] 4.0- 5.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 27.0 MBytes 27.0 MBytes/sec [ 5] 5.0- 6.0 sec 28.4 MBytes 28.4 MBytes/sec [ 7] 5.0- 6.0 sec 29.0 MBytes 29.0 MBytes/sec [ 6] 5.0- 6.0 sec 27.7 MBytes 27.7 MBytes/sec [SUM] 5.0- 6.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 28.4 MBytes 28.4 MBytes/sec [ 5] 6.0- 7.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 6.0- 7.0 sec 27.8 MBytes 27.8 MBytes/sec [ 6] 6.0- 7.0 sec 27.7 MBytes 27.7 MBytes/sec [SUM] 6.0- 7.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 7.0- 8.0 sec 27.3 MBytes 27.3 MBytes/sec [ 7] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.3 MBytes 28.3 MBytes/sec [ 6] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.3 MBytes 28.3 MBytes/sec [SUM] 7.0- 8.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.3 MBytes 28.3 MBytes/sec [ 7] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 8.0- 9.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [SUM] 8.0- 9.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 28.0 MBytes 28.0 MBytes/sec [ 7] 9.0-10.0 sec 28.4 MBytes 28.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 9.0-10.0 sec 28.2 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 9.0-10.0 sec 27.4 MBytes 27.4 MBytes/sec [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 276 MBytes 27.4 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.1 sec 291 MBytes 28.9 MBytes/sec [ 7] 0.0-10.1 sec 278 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.1 sec 284 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.1 sec 1129 MBytes 112 MBytes/secXXXXXXXX@yyyyYYYyyYY:~$ iperf -c 192.168.10.1 -P 4 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.10.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 5] local 192.168.10.66 port 36000 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001 [ 3] local 192.168.10.66 port 35998 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001 [ 4] local 192.168.10.66 port 35999 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001 [ 6] local 192.168.10.66 port 36001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 32.1 MBytes 32.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0- 1.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0- 1.0 sec 30.1 MBytes 30.1 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0- 1.0 sec 28.0 MBytes 28.0 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0- 1.0 sec 118 MBytes 118 MBytes/sec [ 5] 1.0- 2.0 sec 29.0 MBytes 29.0 MBytes/sec [ 3] 1.0- 2.0 sec 27.1 MBytes 27.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 31.0 MBytes 31.0 MBytes/sec [ 6] 1.0- 2.0 sec 26.1 MBytes 26.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 1.0- 2.0 sec 113 MBytes 113 MBytes/sec [ 3] 2.0- 3.0 sec 27.1 MBytes 27.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 2.0- 3.0 sec 28.8 MBytes 28.8 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 29.8 MBytes 29.8 MBytes/sec [ 6] 2.0- 3.0 sec 26.0 MBytes 26.0 MBytes/sec [SUM] 2.0- 3.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 5] 3.0- 4.0 sec 27.9 MBytes 27.9 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 28.8 MBytes 28.8 MBytes/sec [ 3] 3.0- 4.0 sec 27.1 MBytes 27.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 3.0- 4.0 sec 28.6 MBytes 28.6 MBytes/sec [SUM] 3.0- 4.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 6] 4.0- 5.0 sec 27.5 MBytes 27.5 MBytes/sec [ 3] 4.0- 5.0 sec 26.5 MBytes 26.5 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 29.8 MBytes 29.8 MBytes/sec [ 5] 4.0- 5.0 sec 28.2 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 4.0- 5.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 3] 5.0- 6.0 sec 26.9 MBytes 26.9 MBytes/sec [ 6] 5.0- 6.0 sec 29.0 MBytes 29.0 MBytes/sec [ 5] 5.0- 6.0 sec 27.5 MBytes 27.5 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 28.9 MBytes 28.9 MBytes/sec [SUM] 5.0- 6.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 5] 6.0- 7.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 3] 6.0- 7.0 sec 28.6 MBytes 28.6 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 27.5 MBytes 27.5 MBytes/sec [ 6] 6.0- 7.0 sec 27.8 MBytes 27.8 MBytes/sec [SUM] 6.0- 7.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 5] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.2 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [ 3] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 27.4 MBytes 27.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 7.0- 8.0 sec 28.4 MBytes 28.4 MBytes/sec [SUM] 7.0- 8.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 5] 8.0- 9.0 sec 27.6 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 3] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.2 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [ 6] 8.0- 9.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 8.0- 9.0 sec 112 MBytes 112 MBytes/sec [ 3] 9.0-10.0 sec 27.9 MBytes 27.9 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 276 MBytes 27.6 MBytes/sec [ 5] 9.0-10.0 sec 28.8 MBytes 28.8 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 284 MBytes 28.3 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 27.9 MBytes 27.9 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 291 MBytes 29.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 9.0-10.0 sec 29.0 MBytes 29.0 MBytes/sec [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 114 MBytes 114 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 278 MBytes 27.8 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 1129 MBytes 113 MBytes/secWith pfsense acting as client
[2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: iperf -c 192.168.10.66 -P 4 -i 1 - p 5001 -f M -t 10 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 192.168.10.66, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.06 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 6] local 192.168.10.1 port 15069 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 5001 [ 5] local 192.168.10.1 port 4301 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 5001 [ 4] local 192.168.10.1 port 10417 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 5001 [ 3] local 192.168.10.1 port 46991 connected with 192.168.10.66 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 6] 0.0- 1.0 sec 56.9 MBytes 56.9 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0- 1.0 sec 56.9 MBytes 56.9 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 74.4 MBytes 74.4 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0- 1.0 sec 31.2 MBytes 31.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0- 1.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 6] 1.0- 2.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 5] 1.0- 2.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 71.5 MBytes 71.5 MBytes/sec [ 3] 1.0- 2.0 sec 35.2 MBytes 35.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 1.0- 2.0 sec 220 MBytes 220 MBytes/sec [ 6] 2.0- 3.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 5] 2.0- 3.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 80.6 MBytes 80.6 MBytes/sec [ 3] 2.0- 3.0 sec 26.4 MBytes 26.4 MBytes/sec [SUM] 2.0- 3.0 sec 220 MBytes 220 MBytes/sec [ 6] 3.0- 4.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 5] 3.0- 4.0 sec 56.4 MBytes 56.4 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 82.1 MBytes 82.1 MBytes/sec [ 3] 3.0- 4.0 sec 24.6 MBytes 24.6 MBytes/sec [SUM] 3.0- 4.0 sec 220 MBytes 220 MBytes/sec [ 6] 4.0- 5.0 sec 56.2 MBytes 56.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 4.0- 5.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 75.9 MBytes 75.9 MBytes/sec [ 3] 4.0- 5.0 sec 30.6 MBytes 30.6 MBytes/sec [SUM] 4.0- 5.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 6] 5.0- 6.0 sec 56.2 MBytes 56.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 5.0- 6.0 sec 56.2 MBytes 56.2 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 78.8 MBytes 78.8 MBytes/sec [ 3] 5.0- 6.0 sec 28.1 MBytes 28.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 5.0- 6.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 6] 6.0- 7.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 6.0- 7.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 72.8 MBytes 72.8 MBytes/sec [ 3] 6.0- 7.0 sec 34.2 MBytes 34.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 6.0- 7.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 6] 7.0- 8.0 sec 56.0 MBytes 56.0 MBytes/sec [ 5] 7.0- 8.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 79.4 MBytes 79.4 MBytes/sec [ 3] 7.0- 8.0 sec 27.2 MBytes 27.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 7.0- 8.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 6] 8.0- 9.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 8.0- 9.0 sec 56.0 MBytes 56.0 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 70.8 MBytes 70.8 MBytes/sec [ 3] 8.0- 9.0 sec 36.2 MBytes 36.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 8.0- 9.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 72.4 MBytes 72.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 9.0-10.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 563 MBytes 56.3 MBytes/sec [ 5] 9.0-10.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 563 MBytes 56.3 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 759 MBytes 75.9 MBytes/sec [ 3] 9.0-10.0 sec 34.4 MBytes 34.4 MBytes/sec [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 308 MBytes 30.8 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 2193 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [2.3-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root:XXXXX@YYYYY:~$ iperf -s -P 0 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 0.08 MByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.10.66 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 46991 [ 5] local 192.168.10.66 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 10417 [ 6] local 192.168.10.66 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 15069 [ 7] local 192.168.10.66 port 5001 connected with 192.168.10.1 port 4301 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0- 1.0 sec 31.0 MBytes 31.0 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0- 1.0 sec 74.1 MBytes 74.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0- 1.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 0.0- 1.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0- 1.0 sec 217 MBytes 217 MBytes/sec [ 5] 1.0- 2.0 sec 71.4 MBytes 71.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 1.0- 2.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 1.0- 2.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 1.0- 2.0 sec 35.2 MBytes 35.2 MBytes/sec [SUM] 1.0- 2.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 2.0- 3.0 sec 26.2 MBytes 26.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 2.0- 3.0 sec 80.6 MBytes 80.6 MBytes/sec [ 6] 2.0- 3.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 2.0- 3.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 2.0- 3.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 5] 3.0- 4.0 sec 82.0 MBytes 82.0 MBytes/sec [ 6] 3.0- 4.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 3.0- 4.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 4] 3.0- 4.0 sec 24.8 MBytes 24.8 MBytes/sec [SUM] 3.0- 4.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 4.0- 5.0 sec 30.5 MBytes 30.5 MBytes/sec [ 5] 4.0- 5.0 sec 75.9 MBytes 75.9 MBytes/sec [ 6] 4.0- 5.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 4.0- 5.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 4.0- 5.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 5.0- 6.0 sec 28.2 MBytes 28.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 5.0- 6.0 sec 78.7 MBytes 78.7 MBytes/sec [ 6] 5.0- 6.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 5.0- 6.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 5.0- 6.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 6.0- 7.0 sec 34.2 MBytes 34.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 6.0- 7.0 sec 72.8 MBytes 72.8 MBytes/sec [ 6] 6.0- 7.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 6.0- 7.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 6.0- 7.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 7.0- 8.0 sec 27.2 MBytes 27.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 7.0- 8.0 sec 79.4 MBytes 79.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 7.0- 8.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 7.0- 8.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 7.0- 8.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 8.0- 9.0 sec 36.2 MBytes 36.2 MBytes/sec [ 5] 8.0- 9.0 sec 70.7 MBytes 70.7 MBytes/sec [ 6] 8.0- 9.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 8.0- 9.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 8.0- 9.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 9.0-10.0 sec 34.5 MBytes 34.5 MBytes/sec [ 5] 9.0-10.0 sec 72.4 MBytes 72.4 MBytes/sec [ 6] 9.0-10.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 7] 9.0-10.0 sec 56.1 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 9.0-10.0 sec 219 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 308 MBytes 30.8 MBytes/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 759 MBytes 75.8 MBytes/sec [ 7] 0.0-10.0 sec 563 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [ 6] 0.0-10.0 sec 563 MBytes 56.1 MBytes/sec [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 2193 MBytes 219 MBytes/sec -
Well try 8 streams than.
It could be that the packet flow is not optimized to come from the firewall itself, but more to push data through from lan to wan.
I assume if pfsense is the server and you send data to it, all rules will have to be inpected, and you hit on the last one (logically)
Perhaps move it to top for test and see if it improves, than you know if going through the rules has such a impact.With pfsense as client it is pushing data out so no filters at all i assume.
And that 219 is the total of the 4 sessions that run in parrallel.
If i think about it, pfsense its lagg seems to work if the total is above 125 MB/sec it must go over more than one link.
If that does not work for a pc connected to your switch, the switch does not distribute the session over multiple links. That is default for 1 connected pc.
You could test in parrallel with 2 clients against the pfsense server.
If the total of the 2 clients goes above 125 Mb/sec the traffic goes over more than 1 link.(You will never see 125 MB/sec in real world over 1GE links)
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Okay. Here are the results. What do they mean?
8 streams w/ pfsense as server [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 1133 MBytes 113 MBytes/sec
12 streams w/ pfsense as server [SUM] 0.0-10.1 sec 1138 MBytes 113 MBytes/sec
32 streams w/ pfsense as server [SUM] 0.0-10.2 sec 1151 MBytes 113 MBytes/sec
64 streams w/ pfsense as server [SUM] 0.0-10.3 sec 1163 MBytes 113 MBytes/sec8 streams w/ pfsense as client [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 2160 MBytes 216 MBytes/sec
12 streams w/ pfsense as client [SUM] 0.0-10.0 sec 2848 MBytes 284 MBytes/sec
32 streams w/ pfsense as client [SUM] 0.0-10.3 sec 3249 MBytes 314 MBytes/sec
64 streams w/ pfsense as client [SUM] 0.0-10.5 sec 3269 MBytes 312 MBytes/sec -
When I test pfsense acting as server, and two clients sending data at the same time using this:
iperf -c 192.168.10.1 -P 64 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10Then the result is that both clients each have the following result:
Client #1
[SUM] 0.0-10.2 sec 1153 MBytes 113 MBytes/secClient #2
[SUM] 0.0-10.3 sec 1162 MBytes 113 MBytes/secWhen I run the following, they each only get 56.9 MB/s
iperf -c 192.168.10.1 -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f M -t 10That tells me that LACP is working because I could saturate the line with -P 64
Why does a single -P stream not saturate the line?
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It seems to me the lacp is working on the pfsense side.
I do not know juniper, but with a ciso you can only do lacp if the physical interface members have the same configuration. So port speed, duplex, mdix etc.
Perhaps you can check that ?Read this one: http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos15.1/topics/concept/interfaces-hashing-lag-ecmp-understanding.html
Standard hashing is on payload it seems,mall the iperf packets might have the same payload, so they end up on 1 of the members of the link..
Change to level 2 info, your clients have different mac adresses. -
I see more info on hashing here: https://forums.juniper.net/t5/Ethernet-Switching/EX2200-LACP-hashing-algorithm/td-p/107844
I don't see any issue with LACP. I'm expecting it to only do one gigabit links for four separate clients. I think it's strange that I need more than one stream of iperf to saturate the line. In my tests on the management interface, I plugged a linux machine directly into the management port. No switch involved.
Any idea why iperf needs -P 32 or 32 Streams to saturate the line?
Included information about my LACP link below:
root> show interfaces ae0 Physical interface: ae0, Enabled, Physical link is Up Interface index: 128, SNMP ifIndex: 599 Description: pfsense Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Speed: 4Gbps, BPDU Error: None, MAC-REWRITE Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Disabled, Minimum links needed: 1, Minimum bandwidth needed: 0 Device flags : Present Running Interface flags: SNMP-Traps Internal: XXXXXXX Current address: XXXXX, Hardware address: XXXXX Last flapped : 2016-04-14 17:32:53 CDT (20:17:55 ago) Input rate : 113307208 bps (13345 pps) Output rate : 113834880 bps (13366 pps) Logical interface ae0.0 (Index 65) (SNMP ifIndex 603) Flags: SNMP-Traps 0xc0004000 Encapsulation: ENET2 Statistics Packets pps Bytes bps Bundle: Input : 14611 0 916446 0 Output: 2293348 0 245371565 0 Adaptive Statistics: Adaptive Adjusts: 0 Adaptive Scans : 0 Adaptive Updates: 0 Protocol eth-switch Flags: Is-Primary, Trunk-Mode -
What OS are the client pc's running ?
It might be the iperf clients for the OS version issues.My test from pc with windows 7 to freebsd 10.1 server was 350 MB/sec with one session in iperf.
It also depends on buffer size, packet size tested etc, i think.This was with 10GE link over intel cards.
Wintel combination did not want to go faster than that it seems.Freebsd to freebsd was simply close to line rate with one session.