Bandwidth Impact
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I fully understand that there's an overhead impact for ANY inline FW product. That said, my speedtest.net results have gone from ~22Mbps download with a Netshmear WRT to ~14Mbps with pfSense (less even with different open source FW products). Is this normal or is there some level of optimisation that I'm missing?
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there probably is an issue with one of the network cards or drivers.
What are the specs of the device you are running pfsense on ? I've seen a pentium4 push a gigabit over pfsense
check: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards
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there probably is an issue with one of the network cards or drivers.
What are the specs of the device you are running pfsense on ? I've seen a pentium4 push a gigabit over pfsense
check: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards
Thanks for the tips.
I'm running pfSense on a Dell R200 server (Intel Xeon dual-core @3.0GHz; 4GB RAM; 1TB RAID0; dual on-board Gbit NICs).
I tried the changes suggested in the article for bge interfaces, and there was no change:
I tried to see which driver modules were loaded, but none of the tools I expected where there (lsmod, modprobe). On other *nixes, it would load the tigon3(?) modules for the NICs – don't know if that's relevant.
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There's no way that hardware should be restricting you.
Commonly this can be a duplex problem, check ifconfig. Though that would often result in an even lower throughput.Steve
