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    Best way to measure performance ?

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    • L
      lowprofile last edited by

      Hi

      How do you guys make some performance test? e.x troughput?

      What is best practice? It sounds very noob, i know. But how do you test it? Direct on firewall or host? (after firewall)
      How many milliseconds do you "loose" after having a jump though firewall?  0 ?

      thanks in advance!

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        What most people want to know is the throughput of the box. I.e. 'If I have a 200Mbps WAN connection can hardware X pass that?'.

        To test that you need a box on both sides that is at least as fast as the pfSense box. A popular test is utility for this is iperf, it's inclufed in pfSense so you can use 3 pfSense boxes to test but it's also available for other OSs. Run it as a server on a box on one side of the box under test and as a client on a box on the other side. Test the throughput. Test it in the other direction. This artificial test will give you a nice comparable number but real world bi-directional, multi-connection traffic will be different to some extent.

        Steve

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          lowprofile last edited by

          @stephenw10:

          What most people want to know is the throughput of the box. I.e. 'If I have a 200Mbps WAN connection can hardware X pass that?'.

          To test that you need a box on both sides that is at least as fast as the pfSense box. A popular test is utility for this is iperf, it's inclufed in pfSense so you can use 3 pfSense boxes to test but it's also available for other OSs. Run it as a server on a box on one side of the box under test and as a client on a box on the other side. Test the throughput. Test it in the other direction. This artificial test will give you a nice comparable number but real world bi-directional, multi-connection traffic will be different to some extent.

          Steve

          Thanks, i will try using iperf as instructed.  :)

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