So running multiple flows seems to give me the same results....4 tcp based flows gives me an aggregate of ~317Mbits, udp is the same...4 flows aggregate ~500Mbit.
The two reth interfaces in use here: root@core-rtr> show interfaces reth9 statistics Physical interface: reth9, Enabled, Physical link is Up Interface index: 137, SNMP ifIndex: 596 Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Speed: 1Gbps, BPDU Error: None, MAC-REWRITE Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Disabled, Minimum links needed: 1, Minimum bandwidth needed: 0 Device flags : Present Running Interface flags: SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x0 Current address: 00:10:db:ff:10:09, Hardware address: 00:10:db:ff:10:09 Last flapped : 2012-04-24 00:21:10 UTC (1d 01:09 ago) Statistics last cleared: Never Input rate : 0 bps (0 pps) Output rate : 0 bps (0 pps) Input errors: 0, Output errors: 0 Logical interface reth9.0 (Index 100) (SNMP ifIndex 583) Description: Backup VLAN Flags: SNMP-Traps 0x0 Encapsulation: ENET2 Statistics Packets pps Bytes bps Bundle: Input : 40675689 0 60533484597 0 Output: 8384721 0 438616490 0 Security: Zone: backup Allowed host-inbound traffic : ping Protocol inet, MTU: 1500 Flags: Sendbcast-pkt-to-re Addresses, Flags: Is-Preferred Is-Primary Destination: 10.2.100/24, Local: 10.2.100.1, Broadcast: 10.2.100.255 {primary:node0} root@core-rtr> show interfaces ge-2/0/7 statistics Physical interface: ge-2/0/7, Enabled, Physical link is Up Interface index: 283, SNMP ifIndex: 531 Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Link-mode: Full-duplex, Speed: 1000mbps, BPDU Error: None, MAC-REWRITE Error: None, Loopback: Disabled, Source filtering: Disabled, Flow control: Enabled, Auto-negotiation: Enabled, Remote fault: Online Device flags : Present Running Interface flags: SNMP-Traps Internal: 0x0 Link flags : None CoS queues : 8 supported, 8 maximum usable queues Current address: 00:10:db:ff:10:07, Hardware address: 64:87:88:1c:f0:3f Last flapped : 2012-04-24 03:17:27 UTC (22:15:42 ago) Statistics last cleared: Never Input rate : 0 bps (0 pps) Output rate : 0 bps (0 pps) Input errors: 0, Output errors: 0 Active alarms : None Active defects : None Interface transmit statistics: Disabled Logical interface ge-2/0/7.0 (Index 113) (SNMP ifIndex 638) Flags: SNMP-Traps Encapsulation: ENET2 Input packets : 7167489 Output packets: 41515426 Security: Zone: Null Protocol aenet, AE bundle: reth7.0 Link Index: 0 On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Stefan Fouant <sfou...@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote: > On 4/24/2012 1:01 PM, Jeff Rooney wrote: >> >> Single flow using iperf for all of my tests, only variation is that >> I'm using both udp and tcp tests, and via the cluster udp seems to >> handle better, but still only seeing 500Mbit > > > Just for giggles why don't you increase your test to utilize multiple flows > and lets see if you get different performance (this is going to be the more > likely scenario anyways since it's unlikely you'll have a single host > sending 900+ Mbits of traffic). > > Based on your results we can probably start to narrow down performance > limitations. > > > -- > Stefan Fouant > JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ENT, JNCI > Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks > > Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp