Got a question for an issue I am having with my WatchGuard M400 or pfSense.

Smoothrunnings

I have WatchGuard M400 that consists with a i5-4590 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 250GB SSD. I am running the latest production version of pfSense. I also have HAProxy and NTopng installed.

So the issues is the connection between my pfSense and cable modem gives me 1Gb/50Mb is very hit and miss with the speeds.

So that we are on the same page, if I take my Dell XPS L702X laptop (it's got an i7, 32GB of RAM, 2 SSDs) and plug it directly into my modem and do a speed test on fast.com, or using my carriers speed test site I get between 890~960Mb/50~54Mb depending on the app and the connection is makes to the test servers. Fast seems to be always higher than speedtest.

I ran a CAT6A shielded cable from my modem to my server room and plug it directly into the WatchGuard, I have even ran a 50' new piece of CAT6 cable direct path from the modem to the WatchGuard; unfortunately I cannot bring the modem and the router closer together. However when they are connected using one of the methods I get between 500Mb/800Mb max. This is my computer plugged it to my WatchGuard LAN port.

So I am not sure why there is such an inconsistency with pfSense, or maybe it's the WatchGuard. I checked with a friend who setup my WatchGuard as it requires a flash update and he assured me it has the latest FW installation. He's one of the guys who added a lot of input in the WatchGuard M400 thread here on pfSense.

So I am not sure where to start to try and resolve this issue.

Thanks,

stephenw10

First thing is to run top -aSH at the command line whilst running a test and see what the loading looks like across the cores.

Check the interfaces status page for errors/collisions on the interface.

Steve

Smoothrunnings

@stephenw10 said in Got a question for an issue I am having with my WatchGuard M400 or pfSense.:

First thing is to run top -aSH at the command line whilst running a test and see what the loading looks like across the cores.

Check the interfaces status page for errors/collisions on the interface.

Steve

This is my 'top -aSH' info:

last pid: 58555;  load averages:  0.12,  0.10,  0.08  up 1+11:01:26    20:50:43
265 processes: 5 running, 200 sleeping, 60 waiting

Mem: 44M Active, 315M Inact, 372M Wired, 121M Buf, 7114M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free


  PID USERNAME   PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
   11 root       155 ki31     0K    64K RUN     3  34.6H 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu3}]
   11 root       155 ki31     0K    64K CPU2    2  34.6H 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu2}]
   11 root       155 ki31     0K    64K CPU1    1  34.6H 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
   11 root       155 ki31     0K    64K CPU0    0  34.3H 100.00% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
82941 root        21    0   250M   217M nanslp  3  20:20   0.78% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igb1 --dns-mode 0 --local-networks 192.168
75145 root        22    0 95000K 34216K piperd  0   0:01   0.59% php-fpm: pool nginx (php-fpm)
37009 www         20    0 12224K  8080K kqread  1  20:00   0.49% /usr/local/sbin/haproxy -f /var/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -D
82941 root        20    0   250M   217M nanslp  3  10:08   0.39% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igb1 --dns-mode 0 --local-networks 192.168
    0 root       -92    -     0K  1072K -       0  21:38   0.00% [kernel{dummynet}]
82941 root        20    0   250M   217M nanslp  2   7:42   0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igb1 --dns-mode 0 --local-networks 192.168
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    1   4:11   0.00% [intr{irq265: igb0:que 1}]
82941 root        20    0   250M   217M bpf     3   3:56   0.00% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igb1 --dns-mode 0 --local-networks 192.168
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    2   3:24   0.00% [intr{irq266: igb0:que 2}]
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    0   3:24   0.00% [intr{irq269: igb1:que 0}]
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    3   2:33   0.00% [intr{irq267: igb0:que 3}]
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    0   2:18   0.00% [intr{irq264: igb0:que 0}]
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    1   1:28   0.00% [intr{irq270: igb1:que 1}]
   12 root       -92    -     0K   960K WAIT    3   1:22   0.00% [intr{irq272: igb1:que 3}]

And under Status->Interfaces the interfaces show 0/0 in/out errors and 0 colisions.

stephenw10

I assume that was not during a test since it shows 100% idle on all CPU cores.

Can we see the loaded output during a test?

Steve