Intel igb 125Mbps speeds?
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This I understand and disabled snort during the test. I also have squid, this I didn't disable but didn't think it would hit on my speed to much.
And perhaps Squid is acting as a caching proxy too?
Then you might be sure cheating your self! Because if you then do the first time a test, you will get slow
numbers from this test, but if you do it then again and again you will get more fine numbers.So in normal if you want to do a speed test you should do the following:
- Do a fresh and full install
– activate PowerD (hi adaptive)
-- high up the mbuf size to 1.000.000
-- enable TRIM support for the SSD or mSATA
And then take two PCs or Laptops as a server and a client that are doing a test trough the pfSense machine
and then on top you should activate Snort and do the test again. And then you should activate Squid and do
the test again. So you get three independent and different numbers for the throughput of your pfSense machine.- One number is the raw throughput
- One is the Snort throughput
- One is the Snort & Squid throughput
- Do a fresh and full install
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Agreed. Unfortunately I need to get this one in place and have run out of time but I'll be building another one soon for CARP, that one will get further testing as this one will for now meet the needs of the two internet connections. One is 24Mbps the other 40 totally about 60Mbps.
The reason I was trying to get more speed was for future reliability. So that if by chance the internet connections up here get faster and more stable this thing would be ready for the task and for general bench mark purposes.
With this next one I'm going to do just as you said. Two machine, one on each side and then hammer traffic through it. First stock then with one package at a time.
For those that were helpful, thank you. Some of you ??? :-X