On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:40 -0500, Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote: > > Just recalled something while reading thru iperf's (http:// > dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/) web page, and that is I forgot to > mention that this system (pfsense) has traffic shaping enabled. > > Not sure if that is being triggered (effecting anything) since I > assume the LAN interface is included in the shaper.
That may very well be your only problem. Unfortunately, our traffic shaping affects everything going out the LAN. It's not smart enough to differentiate between routed traffic and Internet traffic. I would have provided some instructions on iperf, but it looks like you beat me to the punch before I got back to my email. :) So this is strictly a 100 Mb network? You said bge, I assumed gigabit. That makes your same-VLAN backup speeds seem much more reasonable, when you count in the other factors involved (disk I/O, compression, agent overhead, etc.). 92-93 Mb is wire speed of 100 Mb (i.e. as fast as you're going to get), so your same VLAN performance seems to be good. If you disable the traffic shaper and run it between different VLAN's, what do you see? If you disable the traffic shaper, what kind of throughput on your backup do you see? You will likely see some very minimal performance degradation, but in your scenario it may be so small that it's not measurable. I'm guessing the traffic shaper is what's tripping you up, and everything will be pretty much normal after you disable it. And if we're strictly talking about a network of 100 Mb machines, you can disregard my earlier comments about hardware, bus speed, etc. That box is more than fast enough to push 100 Mb wire speed, but things get much more complicated when you try to push gig wire speed. If you want to use traffic shaping on your Internet connection and not have it affect VLAN routing, what I would recommend is splitting out into two machines. The machine in discussion in this thread would be a great VLAN router, and you could get by with a much lesser machine for your Internet firewall. That's how I have my home network setup and it works great. Alternatively, in a future release the traffic shaper is going to be completely redone to eliminate this and other limitations. It might be a year until you'll see that in a production release though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
