Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-21 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/20/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess I'll stop buying the crappy RTL cards now, eh? > :) Especially with the cost of fxp's, you can find boxes of 10-20 on ebay for pretty cheap. Like here's 5 for $15 buy it now, and plenty of similar auctions. http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-5-

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-20 Thread Randy B
Chris Buechler wrote: hah Well...that's probably the best you can get on that. :) With rl NIC's at least, since they're interrupt happy. Wow. That was certainly it. Ran top and showed 0% idle CPU with over 70% interrupt dedicated to interrupts and ~25% system. I knew the RL NICs were po

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-20 Thread Chris Buechler
> The specific command I ran was "iperf -i 1 -N -d -P3 -c 192.168.0.1" - > from the options on my Gentoo box, -d says it does a bidirectional test > simultaneously, testing (I presumed) duplex. > ah yeah, it is full duplex with that option. I assumed you were doing nothing but a -c and -s. > >

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-20 Thread Randy B
Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) wrote: I'd also like to know which rl cards these are. Can you send the output of pciconf -lv? Glad to oblige [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x13011186 chip=0x13001186 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'D-Link System Inc' device = 'DL 10038C or 10

RE: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-19 Thread Fleming, John \(ZeroChaos\)
I'd also like to know which rl cards these are. Can you send the output of pciconf -lv? thanks -Original Message- From: Chris Buechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:31 AM Cc: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question On 8/18/05,

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/18/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Buechler wrote: > > Not unless you're running both a client and server at each end. > > Unfortunately, not the case - Yes it is. iperf doesn't test full duplex, it's one direction only (with one connection, run a server and a client on each

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-18 Thread Randy B
Chris Buechler wrote: Not unless you're running both a client and server at each end. Unfortunately, not the case - I've run this stuff before, and I've 1 client and 1 server. I'm able to get 93Mb to another machine on the network - acceptable, given the cheap switch I have. Both my deskt

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-18 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/17/05, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this isn't likely the best forum for this question, but please > bear with me. > > I've been seeing a lot of these iperf comments/questions, and decided to > try to track down why my connection to my home firewall seems *so slow*. > Installe

AW: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-17 Thread Holger Bauer
0.10.15.10 24 Holger -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Randy B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. August 2005 04:51 An: support@pfsense.com Betreff: [pfSense Support] iperf question I know this isn't likely the best forum f

[pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-17 Thread Randy B
I know this isn't likely the best forum for this question, but please bear with me. I've been seeing a lot of these iperf comments/questions, and decided to try to track down why my connection to my home firewall seems *so slow*. Installed the package and fired it up, and sure enough - althou