On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Giles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Using Intel E3-1270s and Intel 10G NICs (forget the exact model, but > they use the BSD ix driver) we start seeing packet loss and a general > maximum throughput at around 1-1.2Gbit. Our 'solution' so far of just > adding more appliances and splitting the load really won't scale > forever, so if anyone has any suggestions of 'better hardware' or BSD > optimizations that would let us push more through a single appliances, > i'd love to hear it. We've got a reasonable set of BSD networking tweaks > and optimizations that certainly help, but we still can't manage to push > more than our little-over-a-gigabit maximum before things start wobbling.
I'm a little surprised at your experience. A few years ago I built a PFSense unit with an Intel motherboard, 1st gen Core i3 CPU, and a single onboard Intel (em) GBE NIC. All routing was done through vlans and it had no trouble reaching wire speed with around 50% CPU usage. I do recommend using the net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=1 tweak if you can. Note that it breaks IPSEC and captive portal. As far as 10G NICs, I was sure I read recently that the FreeNAS people were recommending Chelsio, but I can't find the reference now. db _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
