Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-09-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-08-30, Vivek Vinod wrote: > I run a miniscule ISP. Speed tests are flawed. Depends on which ones you are > running - they basically download a file (typically 2 to 10 MB) and determine > how much time that took. Then they report the "mbps". They're more likely to report Mbps (megabits/s

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Patrick Dohman
Seems hardware isn’t as interesting as it once was probably due phones being the only devices developed for now. There are books on virtualization try reading up on nic/io virtualization drivers. Regards Patrick > On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > Patrick wri

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Patrick writes: > I understand the fact about an dedicated server and the fact that not > ervery speedtest is the same. But there is another angle. I have installed > FreeBSD with the same specs and also a PF enabled and in testing its is > much better. I have also a VPS in a DC normal the speeds

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Patrick
Met vriendelijke groet, *Patrick Koreneef* T: +316-40951631 E: patr...@natpnk.nl On 30 August 2015 at 23:28, Patrick wrote: > "So upgrade righ now." > I am currently runnig 5.8 > > "What does "download a test bin" mean, exactly?" > A 1000mb.bin with zero's to test the download speed for a DC

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Patrick
gt; Also, apologies for assuming "you don't know"‎, but Internet speeds > (throughput) are in mega bits per second and not mega bytes per second. > > Vivek > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. > Original Message > From: Patrick‎ > Sent: Sunday 30

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Vivek Vinod
r second.  Vivek Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Patrick‎ Sent: Sunday 30 August 2015 23:39 To: misc@openbsd.org‎ Subject: OpenBSD on Fiber Hello, I have a fiber internet connection with 500Mbs download and 500Mbs upload. I installed a long time ago a firew

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread obsd
Using an HP proliant microserver N40 as firewall will get you enough bandwith at a very reasoble price (approx. 200 Euro). My 500 Mbit/s link can be fully saturated both down and uplink. Firewalling something like 10 vlan's (using a dedicated em interface for egress, and bge for the vlan's) works w

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Marko Cupać
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:08:54 +0200 Patrick wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fiber internet connection with 500Mbs download and 500Mbs > upload. I installed a long time ago a firewall with OpenBSD 5.5 with > routing and PF. But after a speedtest the line is stuck at around > 200Mbs. Even when i downl

Re: OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Gareth Nelson
Why are you routing in a VM? Dedicate real metal to the task and you should see performance improvements On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Patrick wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fiber internet connection with 500Mbs download and 500Mbs upload. > I installed a long time ago a firewall with OpenBSD

OpenBSD on Fiber

2015-08-30 Thread Patrick
Hello, I have a fiber internet connection with 500Mbs download and 500Mbs upload. I installed a long time ago a firewall with OpenBSD 5.5 with routing and PF. But after a speedtest the line is stuck at around 200Mbs. Even when i download a test bin the speed is around 17Mbs. After this experience