Horribly slow COPY on SMB share

[comrax]

Hello.

I am not sure this is related to this forum, but I think that it's the best place to post it.
I'm having an unknown problem ever since I started working with pfSense (switched off FortiGate-60).
My network is as follows:

WAN (has no effect here, it's an internal network problem)
LAN (FreeBSD 7-STABLE, Samba 3.0.28)
OPT1 (Windows 2000 Server, Backup)

All connected to pfSense through 3 NIC's and operating at 100Mbps.

pfSense has a rule to allow traffic on port 445 (MS DS) from OPT1 -> LAN, with no states.
All other OPT1 -> LAN traffic is denied (though no speed increase was monitored without it).
There's no traffic shaping in effect at all.

Using the above configuration, I am able to list files on the Samba share (LAN), and then I want to copy a 300MB file from LAN to OPT1. The copy takes around 160 minutes. That's a bit below 2MB/min. which sounds terribly wrong! The same hardware and software combination were used with the previous FortiGate-60, also connected to its 3 NIC's, and it ran pretty well! I guess it's something in pfSense's configuration?

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

[Perry]

It might be your nic's (intel is best)

File transfer with windows can be a pain so i prefer using something else.

To test your speed you can use SMBdownloader ( no install )
ftp://ftp.jcu.edu.au/pub/Utilities/other/SMBDownLoader.exe

Total Commander is also a nice tool.
http://www.ghisler.com/

[comrax]

pfSense uses fxp's (which are Intel's), LAN uses Broadcom's (it's brand-new HP 380G5 server) and OPT1 uses Netfinity (IBM x335 server).
Again, everything worked with the former firewall… No hardware/software changed except the firewall.

This is odd!!

[comrax]

And, it's a backup robot that is installed on the Windows (OPT1) server that automatically copies all data on the SMB share (LAN), so no other protocols or programs would fit my needs.

[hoba]

Trafficshpaing on multiple interfaces is not really supported in 1.2. Turn off the trafficshaper for your situation.

[comrax]

As I mentioned earlier, there's no Traffic Shaper active on any interface…

[comrax]

Anyone have any idea on how to solve this particular problem?
Meanwhile, I've allowed all traffic on the firewall between these two NIC's, with no Traffic Shaping whatsoever, and I still get the same rate. I will probably connect both computers with a cross-cable eventually if this is not resolved… :(

[comrax]

OK, I think I've resolved this problem. I've done the following steps:

1. Tweaked the Windows Registry using numerous HOW-TO's found on the Internet, especially TCP Windows Size, Request Buffer Size and TCP 1323 Options.

2. Rebooted the Windows server.

This has resolved the problem, and copying a 300MB file now takes approximately 2 minutes!

Thanks for everyone's assistance and time.