Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?

Cool_Corona

@VincentEmmanuel said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

Hi guys, I did some digging and have some mixed views on this topic.

I'm getting a 10gb Internet sfp hand-off so my question is whether pfsense can handle 10gb WAN?

Is your internet line 10gbit??

VincentEmmanuel

@Cool_Corona Yes it's 10gb

Cool_Corona

@VincentEmmanuel said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

@Cool_Corona Yes it's 10gb

What packages do you plan to run??

VincentEmmanuel

@Cool_Corona Suricata and pfblocker

kiokoman

pfSense can surely be able to handle 10gb, the question is on which hardware you intend to run it

Cool_Corona

@VincentEmmanuel

Virtualized or bare metal??

How many PPS do you see on the wire?

VincentEmmanuel

@kiokoman Xeon E3 with probably 16gb ram

VincentEmmanuel

@Cool_Corona Bare metal. Its not provisioned yet so I dunno about the pps but my main concern is whether pfsense is able to handle the 10gb wan side.

Cool_Corona

@VincentEmmanuel said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

@Cool_Corona Bare metal. Its not provisioned yet so I dunno about the pps but my main concern is whether pfsense is able to handle the 10gb wan side.

It is. It has a lot to do with hardware. Minimum 16 cores, high Mhz and 16GB ram.

I run it on a 32 core system, 32GB ram and SSD but only 2ghz clock speed. I can push around 1,8MM PPS no packet loss and under 1ms latency.

JKnott

@VincentEmmanuel said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

@Cool_Corona Yes it's 10gb

Wow. The only customer I've ever seen get 10 Gb was a major bank. Even carriers and ISPs max out at 100 Gb.

Cool_Corona

@JKnott

Gbit... not gigabyte...

@VincentEmmanuel said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

@Cool_Corona Bare metal. Its not provisioned yet so I dunno about the pps but my main concern is whether pfsense is able to handle the 10gb wan side.

I use to run 32 cores.... only 8 now with the current release. (2.4.5).

32 cores was on 2.4.4p3 and it ran no issues. Lots of problems with the patest release and multiple cores...

JKnott

@Cool_Corona said in Can pfsense handle 10gb WAN?:

Gbit... not gigabyte...

I didn't say gigabyte. I said Gb, which means gigabit. GB = gigabyte.

Rico

The XG-1537 or XG-1541 can easy do 10 Gbps.
https://store.netgate.com/XG-1537.aspx
https://store.netgate.com/pfSense/XG-1541.aspx

-Rico