Understanding the iperf, imix test done to the Netgate Hardware 8300

galcorlo

Reading some of your forum entries, I understand that you conducted the bandwidth tests on Netgate devices.

I've read the footnotes in the Netgate Hardware Comparison document, and I'm interested in knowing what your setup was for testing the Netgate 8300 appliance running pfSense Plus. Since you weren't using expansion cards, I assume you only tested the four built-in 10 Gbps interfaces.

Could you provide more detailed information about the test? For example, did you set up one IP on each interface, saturate all of them with iperf, and then measure only the egress traffic?

I'm also wondering if using 25 Gbps interfaces could achieve greater throughput. However, I suspect it's not possible to improve the Firewall and IPsec VPN performance simply by replacing the network cards. My supposition is that the Firewall and IPsec VPN performance was limited by the CPU, not the network interfaces.

I would appreciate any more information you could provide.

Thank you

stephenw10

I wasn't personally involved in that, I'll see what I get for you. But, yes, almost certainly CPU limited for any pf or VPN testing.

hsgajmer21

Hi ,

I believe this topic is related to the issue I’m experiencing, and I’m facing a similar problem.

I recently upgraded my hardware from a Netgate 7100 to a Netgate 8300. On WAN1, I am using a 10 Gbps SFP connection to LAN at 10 Gbps. My internet plan provides 1 Gbps download and 1 Gbps upload.

With the Netgate 7100, the internet connection was working perfectly. After moving to the Netgate 8300, the download speed is fine (around 800–990 Mbps), but the upload speed is limited to about 250 Mbps maximum.

I tested the internet connection with a direct connection, and both download and upload speeds work correctly, so the ISP link appears to be fine.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue with the Netgate 8300? If you’ve encountered and resolved this problem, I would really appreciate your advice.

Thank you.

Regards,
Hari

marcosm

@hsgajmer21 TAC may be able to help. Try contacting them. If not, make a new thread for further discussion.