Xen throughput

jonnytabpni · Jun 8, 2010, 9:56 PM

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone please tell me what throughput they are getting with pfsense on Xen, and what network card drivers they have chosen to use?

Initially, I started off by doing PCI passthrough for my WAN NIC, and used e1000 emulation for LAN. Speed was capping at 90Mbp/s.
When both were set to e1000, speed was capping at 30Mbp/s
When LAN was set to e1000 and WAN was set to default (rl8xxx), speed was capping at 71Mbp/s.

I wish I could have stayed with the first option, however my link speed is only detected at 10Mbps unless I take the cable out and in 2 or 3 times. Any tips on the above? In some cases, to get the above speed, I had to enable "device polling" in pfsense

Thanks

fastcon68 · Jun 17, 2010, 1:10 AM

I never had any issues, I have 3 MB / 512 KB and got max throught put without any issues.
RC