Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense
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Hello
I have gigabit internet and my download and upload speed just went downhill....
Id like to know how to fix it and/or at least get it make to decent levels.
I believe I tried this:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#pppoe-with-multi-queue-nics
But it made no difference.
Im current running pfSense 2.6.0 on ESXi
Thank you
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@riahc8 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
my download and upload speed just went downhill....
So you were seeing the expected speeds? What changed?
Steve
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@stephenw10 I switched from ISP router to pfSense.
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Ok. What speeds are you seeing now?
What specs are the VM? NICs, CPU, RAM etc
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@stephenw10 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
What specs are the VM?
Not just VM - what is the VM host, for all we know he is running esxi on some 10 year old laptop ;)
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The VM is runnning on a L5640 @ 2.27GHz, 1 core only, and 2GB of RAM. All on a SSD.
The NIC is a Intel I350-T4
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@riahc8 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
L5640
The Intel Xeon L5640 that came out in 2010?
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@johnpoz said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
@riahc8 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
L5640
The Intel Xeon L5640 that came out in 2010?
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/47926/intel-xeon-processor-l5640-12m-cache-2-26-ghz-5-86-gts-intel-qpi.html
Thats the spec sheet I believe
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This is what is currently sold on the market as pfSense hardware:
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/91533/intel-celeron-processor-j3160-2m-cache-up-to-2-24-ghz.html
This is the most powerful Netgear offers:
https://shop.netgate.com/products/1541-base-pfsense
Comparison
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=47926,91533,91199
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@riahc8 but pfsense isn't running as a vm when it runs on the native hardware.. Your comparing apples to oranges..
Again your processor is what like 12 years old..
I use to run pfsense on esxi on an old HP microserver, it ran just fine until I up my internet speed. As a VM on that hardware just couldn't push 500..
I am not saying it can't do it - but pppoe hasn't been known to be rocket ship on pfsense anyway. I don't use pppoe so I don't follow those threads much.
Just pointing out expecting A vm to run full gig on 12 year old processor might be asking a bit much.. @stephenw10 would be the guy that would know..
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@johnpoz said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
@riahc8 but pfsense isn't running as a vm when it runs on the native hardware.. Your comparing apples to oranges..
Again your processor is what like 12 years old..
I use to run pfsense on esxi on an old HP microserver, it ran just fine until I up my internet speed. As a VM on that hardware just couldn't push 500..
I am not saying it can't do it - but pppoe hasn't been known to be rocket ship on pfsense anyway. I don't use pppoe so I don't follow those threads much.
Just pointing out expecting A vm to run full gig on 12 year old processor might be asking a bit much.. @stephenw10 would be the guy that would know..
AFAIK, its based on clock speed, isnt it?
I been meaning to break out by pfSense into something standalone but cost wise it wasnt worth it
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BTW, in a virtualized OpenWRT, on the same hardware, it reaches 1Gbps without any issues. I know one is FreeBSD and the other linux but just wanted to state that.
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@riahc8 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
1 core only, and 2GB of RAM
I would start by being more generous with your VM resource allocation. You can not get speed improvements by using multi queuing with a single thread VM.
Also this thread should probably be here https://forum.netgate.com/category/33/virtualization where several recent threads describe speed issues with ESXi
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@patch said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
@riahc8 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
1 core only, and 2GB of RAM
I would start by being more generous with your VM resource allocation. You can not get speed improvements by using multi queuing with a single thread VM.
Also this thread should probably be here https://forum.netgate.com/category/33/virtualization where several recent threads describe speed issues with ESXi
I just upped it to 4 cores and 4 GB of ram. Same thing.
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@riahc8 Put your OpenWRT in front of pfSense and have a look if it is really PPPoE what is making problems for you.
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FWIW, I run pfSense on the computer described in my sig. Here's my speedtest from a couple of days ago. This is on a cable modem with a 500/20 connection. So, pfSense is definitely capable, on the appropriate hardware. I wouldn't run a firewall in a VM for security reasons, let alone performance.
Incidentally, I used to run pfSense on an old HP compact desktop computer. After it died I bought the current hardware. With the HP I would typically get mid 500s down on speedtest. The new hardware caused a huge increase in performance.
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Again, what speeds are you actually seeing?
If it was running baremetal I'd expect to see the at or very close to 1G PPPoE with that CPU given it's single thread numbers.
Steve
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@bob-dig said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
@riahc8 Put your OpenWRT in front of pfSense and have a look if it is really PPPoE what is making problems for you.
Ive been giving that some thought and call it a day.......
How would I do this?
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@stephenw10 said in Gigabit internet PPPoE and pfSense:
Again, what speeds are you actually seeing?
If it was running baremetal I'd expect to see the at or very close to 1G PPPoE with that CPU given it's single thread numbers.
Steve
Give or take: Around 8 Mpbs down , and 0.5 Mpbs up..... Awful speeds as you can tell....
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Ah, OK! Yeah that's not a single thread PPPoE limitation. That looks more like a link speed/duplex mismatch somewhere. Throughput that low has to be some low level mis-configuration.
I would try testing to/from the firewall directly with iperf to determine which interface is at fault. If it's not both.
Steve
