Juniper recommends setting a reduce MTU on VPNs to allow for overhead. Does 
your configuration include that?

Bob Webber

> On Jan 24, 2014, at 17:34, Nick Cammorato <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The problem is universal from the VPN to any device on any network that has 
> it's gateway on the SRX. It doesn't show up if the VPN isn't in the picture 
> or if the destination server is off a different piece of gear, so it has got 
> to be some kind of interaction between the two(and it showed up when the VPN 
> gateway was moved to the SRX), I just can't think of what it could be.   
> 
> I can transfer from confluence A or Confluence B to anything but a VPN client 
> at normal speeds (1-10gbps or tunnel maxes depending), via iperf, scp, wget, 
> curl, ftp, what have you - it only slows down if the VPN is in the picture.
> 
> Everything has claimed to negotiate down to 100/full - and the problem showed 
> up identically when the ASA was off a switch(as opposed to directly 
> connected) where that definitely was not an issue.  I've run into that one 
> before(it's fun!) though with a Verizon Fiber NID.  
> 
> All of the firewall rules are off, everything is in default permit at present 
> until we settle in from the current change.
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Cammorato <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> Nick> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:39 PM, John Stoffel <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Nick,
>> >>
>> >> From looking at your description, it really sounds like you've got
>> >> some sort of caching in the middle which is slowing things down.  But
>> >> you don't explain the other side of the VPN well enough to know.
>> >>
>> >>
>> Nick> No caching, no application acceleration anywhere I'm aware of.
>> 
>> 
>> >> Can the client using the VPN got a simple FTP from either of your
>> >> Confluence servers at full speed?  Or can they pull http data from
>> >> other internal hosts over the VPN at full speed.
>> >>
>> 
>> Nick> Installed vsftpd real quick, SCPed a test file over to the pub
>> Nick> directory - it started at 2.5 and went up to 3.5 MB/s on the
>> Nick> transfer up.
>> 
>> That's a good sign...
>> 
>> Nick> Pulled back down over FTP and SCP at 10kbps.
>> 
>> But that's bad.  So there's something between your Confluence server
>> and the device on the other side of the VPN that's choking things.
>> Hmm... can you do fast downloads from other systems via the VPN
>> connection, or are the Confluence the only ones slow sending data out
>> the VPN?
>> 
>> Oh!  Have you checked the speeds of all your connections?  It's almost
>> like you have the dreaded 100mbit - 1GigE mis-configuration that the
>> old Sun hme (Happy Meal Ethernet) interfaces used to have at one time
>> with Cisco devices.  Autonegotiation would break down, etc.
>> 
>> Can you use 'iperf' on the Confluence side to see if you can push a
>> bunch of data to various other systems, to try and narrow down where
>> in the chain of network hops the slowdown happens?  Or even just doing
>> scp to/from the box from various spots sould help narrow it down.
>> 
>> Something is seriously wrong in the network.  Heck, it could be the
>> ASA is just hammered, or has a poorly written firewall rule or something.
>> 
>> Nick> The fact that serial access is slow, while parallel access is fast
>> >> is... surprising.  Does each access when done in parallel stay at
>> >> 10kbps, or do they all speed up to whatever the max the pipe to their
>> >> end supports.
>> >>
>> 
>> Nick> The all speed up(to 200kbps or so) until one remains, then it drops 
>> back
>> Nick> down.  It's utterly bizzare.
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