x540 and x550 performance the same
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Ha, yup there you go. You need to test through it with multiple stream to have any idea what it's capable of.
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@stephenw10 then why on windows can i run single stream and get 9+Gbit bidirectionally? Exactly same machine
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In iperf3? With a firewall running?
pfSense is specifically not optimised as a TCP end point. It's setup to forward packets.
What you're seeing there is pretty much exactly what I expect if you're running iperf3 on pfSense. In fact it's better than I would expect.
Steve
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@stephenw10 the crappy thing is, i should have just left it as a vm because really there's no advantages to vm vs hardware then because my speeds in a vm were no different
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Certainly pfSense is never going to use anywhere near 88 CPU cores. So in that respect you would get far better use from the hardware running as a VM along side other VMs.
It still looks like you're testing it wrong though.
Steve
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@stephenw10 oddly enough discovered the issue this am
Using upnp for device to negotiate to the outside world just works
manually nat/mapping seems to push some weird packet limit, maybe in the software, users couldnt get more than 20-25mbit streams going, now they're doing full.
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Like in pfSense itself? Or on some upstream device?
Is this all inbound traffic then?
This is all new information.....
Steve
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@stephenw10 So instead of nating a port internally, i use upnp and just let it do its thing, cleared up my issue, no idea why
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To be clear you're talking about inbound traffic and some server opening ports via UPnP?
UPnP does nothing with outbound traffic.
Steve
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@stephenw10 It solved one issue but now I need to find another but its not related to the nic
