On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Erich Weiler <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suspect my firewall *is* the cause of the packet loss, unfortunately. >> We're sending multiple streams in from multiple sources and >> destinations, but the aggregate bandwidth coming into the firewall is >> consistent no matter how many sources and destinations we have. It maxes >> at about 2Gb/s. That's why I was trying to tweak the firewall, to try >> and get that number up. >> > > Sorry, to be clear, the *average* bandwidth was like 2Gb/s, I'm really > trying to dodge the sawtooth traffic pattern in some way, I see it go up to > 3Gb/s every once in a while. I was hoping to achieve getting closer to > 3Gb/s on average by adding buffers to my firewall, but maybe that isn't the > answer... > > I tried Jason's suggestions earlier but it didn't seem to help much > unfortunately. Yeah, skimming fail, I didn't realize the machine was not the termination point of your connections. I do have patches back ported that would likely get the modular congestion control working on 8.1, but neither my suggestions nor the implementation of Cubic will help much as mentioned. Jason _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
