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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.2 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      falumas
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      I am getting fairly low throughput on Hyper-V. It seems like the network somehow gets limited to 100Mbit, since I only get 100Mbit through.

      Neither the webgui or the console gives any information on the media type of the Hyper-V adapters.

      I am not using the legacy adapter in Hyper-V.

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        hege
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        please give us more information.

        Which Hardware do you use?
        Is it a internal or external Network? (External - which NIC?)

        Do you use traffic shapper?

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          falumas
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          I am running Hyper-V 2012R2. You can only connect VMs to virtual switches there. The switches all run 10Gbit. The physical network cards also connected to the virtual switch run 1Gbit which I can see on the physical switches.

          The HyperV 2012R2 server has 3 virtual switches (red, orange, green). The pfsense is only connected to red and orange. Each switch is connected to a physical network card.

          If I skip the psSense 2.2 and connect my CentOS7 (also running under HyperV 2012r2) I get 240Mbit throughput which is more or less my internet speed. Through pfsense my CentOS7 only gets 100Mbit.

          I am using 3 Intel network card in the server, 2 intel I350 and 1 intel PRO/1000 GT.

          2.2-BETA  (amd64)
          built on Wed Oct 15 23:23:52 CDT 2014

          FreeBSD 10.1-RC2

          Tell me what more information you need.

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            colinscholz
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            I get over 200Mbps both upload and download. Running Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 III with both built in NICs for LAN, and a Realtek 1Gbps PCIe for WAN. I got roughly the same running Windows 2008 R2.

            I normally run a semi current snapshot of 2.2 which gets updated normally the 1st and the 15th of the month.

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              falumas
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              200 out of what?

              I tried today to set up a Windows 7 machine as firewall and that one pumped 230Mbit out of 250Mbit on the same hardware to a CentOS7 guest.

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                hege
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                pfSense 2.2 -> Debian

                [  5] local 10.X.X.X port 5001 connected with 10.X.X.X port 39806
[  5]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.06 GBytes   910 Mbits/sec
[  4] local 10.X.X.X port 5001 connected with 10.X.X.X port 39807
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  1010 MBytes   846 Mbits/sec

                Hyper-V 2012 R2 / External Intel NIC
                AMD Cpu

                Please test your throughput internally (localhost)

                [  3] local 127.0.0.1 port 17290 connected with 127.0.0.1 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  7.88 GBytes  6.77 Gbits/sec

                Do you use the traffic shaper?

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                  falumas
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                  Can't say that I am a FreeBSD guru. Which commands did you use to get those results. I used ifconfig which didn't say anything about connection speed.

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                    hege
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                    that's iperf (available as pfsense package)
                        one host act as server (iperf -h)
                        one host act as client (iperf -c SERVERIP)

                    if you want to test it over WAN, you need a FW rule

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                      falumas
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                      I will test it on Wednesday, sadly no time for this until that.

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                        colinscholz
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                        @falumas:

                        200 out of what?

                        I tried today to set up a Windows 7 machine as firewall and that one pumped 230Mbit out of 250Mbit on the same hardware to a CentOS7 guest.

                        oops, sorry. actual link speed is 1Gbps, and WAN from/to either end is 250Mbps. the ~200Mbps was for the VPN link between. Within the LAN it varies between 300-800Mbps, depending on which devices I test with.

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                          falumas
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                          CentOS7 to CentOS7 both under Hyper-V 2012R2

                          –----------------------------------------------------------
                          [  3] local 192.168.1.xxx port 55167 connected with 192.168.1.xxx port 5001
                          [ ID] Interval      Transfer    Bandwidth
                          [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  718 MBytes  602 Mbits/sec

                          pfSense to CentOS7 both under Hyper-V 2012R2

                          –----------------------------------------------------------
                          [  9] local 192.168.1.xxx port 49626 connected with 192.168.1.xxx port 5001
                          [ ID] Interval      Transfer    Bandwidth
                          [  9]  0.0-10.0 sec  174 MBytes  146 Mbits/sec

                          pfSense version
                          2.2-BETA  (amd64)
                          built on Sat Oct 25 21:39:21 CDT 2014

                          FreeBSD 10.1-RC3

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                            heper
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                            what kind of virtual nics are you using? the legacy ones are crappy

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                              falumas
                              last edited by

                              I am using the once simply called Network Adapter (and not the ones called legacy adapters) for all my VMs.

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                                hege
                                last edited by

                                @falumas:

                                pfSense to CentOS7 both under Hyper-V 2012R2

                                [  9]  0.0-10.0 sec  174 MBytes  146 Mbits/sec

                                That's really weak, any special configuration with the hyper-v network adapters?
                                (SR-IOV / Vlan / Enabled Bandwidth management / NIC Teaming / Disabled virtual machine queue / Disabled IPsec task offloading)  ;D

                                Did you specify the MTU value manually, within pfSense?

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                                  falumas
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                                  My computer doesn't support VT-D so no SR-IOV.

                                  I have tried both with and without VMQ and without gives me a 20Mbit lower value.

                                  No NIC-teaming, IPsec task offloading is disabled.

                                  MTU is untouched in pfSense.

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                                    hege
                                    last edited by

                                    ok than I am out, sorry I have no idea what's the issue here. (but I don't think, that's a issue with pfSense)

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                                      falumas
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                                      Found this in the log of the Hyper-V server. I am using a fully updated Hyper-V 2012R2 core.

                                      2.2-BETA  (amd64)
                                      built on Tue Oct 28 06:49:37 CDT 2014

                                      FreeBSD 10.1-RC3

                                      Networking driver in PfSense2.2 loaded but has a different version from the server. Server version 5.0  Client version 3.2 (Virtual machine ID C4EC369E-xxxx-xxxx-8A85-9DBFB85BFB0B). The device will work, but this is an unsupported configuration. This means that technical support will not be provided until this problem is resolved. To fix this problem, upgrade the integration services. To upgrade, connect to the virtual machine and select Insert Integration Services Setup Disk from the Action menu.

                                      Do I need to install integration services in pfSense 2.2 or are they included?

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                                        falumas
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                                        This is another thing I found in the logs which most likely didn't cause my problem, but it seems like the Hyper-V components need a boost.

                                        A storage device in 'pfsense2.2' loaded but has a different version from the server.  Server version 6.0  Client version 2.0 (Virtual machine ID 6D28DD84-xxxx-xxxxx-B799-AECCE8AF44E6). The device will work, but this is an unsupported configuration. This means that technical support will not be provided until this problem is resolved. To fix this problem, upgrade the integration services. To upgrade, connect to the virtual machine and select Insert Integration Services Setup Disk from the Action menu.

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                                          Kofl
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                                          @falumas:

                                          This is another thing I found in the logs which most likely didn't cause my problem, but it seems like the Hyper-V components need a boost.

                                          A storage device in 'pfsense2.2' loaded but has a different version from the server.  Server version 6.0  Client version 2.0 (Virtual machine ID 6D28DD84-xxxx-xxxxx-B799-AECCE8AF44E6). The device will work, but this is an unsupported configuration. This means that technical support will not be provided until this problem is resolved. To fix this problem, upgrade the integration services. To upgrade, connect to the virtual machine and select Insert Integration Services Setup Disk from the Action menu.

                                          That message can be ignored: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2737297 (its not only valid for Windows but also for *inux, *BSD)

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                                            falumas
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                                            I do not have that message for any Win7, Win8, Win10 or CentOS7 guest.

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