Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
On 21 October 2010 20:39, Christian Borchert ccb...@gmail.com wrote: I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest (2.6.4 iirc) and that has not resolved the issue. I have tried with the onboard broadcom nic and a single intel pci gigabit nic, and also a single intel pcie nic. No change in throughput. Perhaps you have hit the mobo limits then? Try over clocking the board just temporarily and see if make any differences? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
I did some more testing. If both the LAN and WAN ports negotiate 1000 mbps, i can run 100 mbps FD through the router. However if either or both the WAN and/or LAN ports negotiate 100 mbps, I can only run 100 mbps down and ~ 50 mbps up. Can anyone else confirm this? Regards, Christian On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:26 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 October 2010 20:39, Christian Borchert ccb...@gmail.com wrote: I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest (2.6.4 iirc) and that has not resolved the issue. I have tried with the onboard broadcom nic and a single intel pci gigabit nic, and also a single intel pcie nic. No change in throughput. Perhaps you have hit the mobo limits then? Try over clocking the board just temporarily and see if make any differences? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
[pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
I have a Dell Optiplex 745 SFFhttp://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/opti_745techspecs.pdf (Core 2 Duo) with an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapterhttp://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000mt-dualport/pro1000mt-dualport-overview.htm I am running 2.0-BETA4 (i386) built on Wed Oct 20 20:31:52 EDT 2010 I have the onboard Broadcom NIC disabled in the BIOS. I cannot achieve 100 mbps FD speeds. I can download at 100 mbps without any upload, and I can upload at 100 mbps without any download. But when I attempt to do both at the same time, my upload goes to 40 mbps while my download is at 100 mbps. I have tried this network card in another machine (HP Core 2 Quad) and it works perfectly under the same test conditions. I have the same problem with the 1.2.3 release of pfSense as well. I have tried enabling/disabling pooling and hardware offloading, but it does not fix my throughput issues. Any ideas?
Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Christian Borchert ccb...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried this network card in another machine (HP Core 2 Quad) and it works perfectly under the same test conditions. I have limited experience with Dell servers, but I have found some of their newer laptops (Vostro and Latitude) are absolutely atrocious for IO, constantly stuttering mouse pointer, keyboard and sound, for no obvious reason. This is with good hard drives, lots of RAM, page file disabled, speedboot enabled, Windows and Linux, etc... I have reached the conclusion that there is something terribly flawed with the way their hardware is configured. Sorry to be a wet blanket. I hope you find a solution to your problem. :P db - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
Hi, Op 21 okt 2010, om 20:06 heeft Christian Borchert het volgende geschreven: I have a Dell Optiplex 745 SFF (Core 2 Duo) with an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter What might be happening here is the somewhat peculiar setup of the pci slot(s) on the Dell optiplex machines. For example, the x16 slot is not x16, it is x1. There are a number of odd shortcuts where I've hit those sort of limits before. I'd blame the optiplex. You might find that a bios update might sometimes bright a negligable improvement. I've bumped into a number of those things when I test with dell optiplexes which work fine in a entry level poweredge 850 but hit odd performance limits in the optiplex. The processor shouldn't be a issue. The 2.13 xeon in the poweredge 860 does 600mbps with a iscsi connection. I've also hit issues with a gx240 p4 box that wouldn't boot with 2 intel dual port mt cards in it. Regards, Seth
Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)
I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest (2.6.4 iirc) and that has not resolved the issue. I have tried with the onboard broadcom nic and a single intel pci gigabit nic, and also a single intel pcie nic. No change in throughput. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Seth Mos seth@dds.nl wrote: Hi, Op 21 okt 2010, om 20:06 heeft Christian Borchert het volgende geschreven: I have a Dell Optiplex 745 SFFhttp://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/opti_745techspecs.pdf (Core 2 Duo) with an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapterhttp://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000mt-dualport/pro1000mt-dualport-overview.htm What might be happening here is the somewhat peculiar setup of the pci slot(s) on the Dell optiplex machines. For example, the x16 slot is not x16, it is x1. There are a number of odd shortcuts where I've hit those sort of limits before. I'd blame the optiplex. You might find that a bios update might sometimes bright a negligable improvement. I've bumped into a number of those things when I test with dell optiplexes which work fine in a entry level poweredge 850 but hit odd performance limits in the optiplex. The processor shouldn't be a issue. The 2.13 xeon in the poweredge 860 does 600mbps with a iscsi connection. I've also hit issues with a gx240 p4 box that wouldn't boot with 2 intel dual port mt cards in it. Regards, Seth
