<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[iperf3 issue for IPsec VTI between two sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Site A WAN = has a public static IP and is acting as responder only; has 400Mbps down/400Mbps up connection<br />
Site B WAN = has a private dynamic IP and is behind a CGNAT; it acts as the initiator; has 100Mbps down/100Mbps up connection</p>
<p dir="auto">When I do an iperf3 test on any device from Site B to any device on Site A (sending data from B to A), I get the full 100Mbps bandwidth. When I do Site A to Site B, I get only an average of around 27Mbps!</p>
<p dir="auto">Both use the same ISP and they get their full speed in speedtest.net. To further complicate things, when I download a file using SMB from either side (from Site A to Site B / from Site B to Site A) I get the full 100Mbps bandwidth! So there's something weird going on with iperf for sure. It seems that the issue is non-existent in the real world but I'm still curious why iperf says otherwise. Any ideas? Does it have to do something with Site A being set to "responder only"?</p>
<p dir="auto">EDIT: If I run the same test with "-P 8", I do get the full expected bandwidth so there's that. It seems that running iperf3 with one connection from Site A to Site B is not fully utilizing the available bandwidth but, again, why? I have pretty much the same settings on these two boxes.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/159456/iperf3-issue-for-ipsec-vti-between-two-sites</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:42:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.netgate.com/topic/159456.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:31:33 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to iperf3 issue for IPsec VTI between two sites on Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:48:01 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/stephenw10">@<bdi>stephenw10</bdi></a> any ideas?</p>
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