On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ted Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm running 1.2-RELEASE and we recently upgraded from 10mbps DSL to a
> metro fiber link and we were seeing a pretty significant performance hit
> across the firewall, especially outbound.  In troubleshooting this, my
> provider has disabled all limiting on their end and the connection is
> basically a wide open FDX 100Mbps link.  This *really* made the
> performance drop noticeable.
>
> Simple Diagram:
>
> ----------------   --------------   ------------
> | Fiber Switch |---| Cisco 2801 |---| Firewall |--> Multiple LANs
> ----------------   --------------   ------------
>                          |
>                   --------------
>                   | DMZ Switch |--> DMZ Hosts
>                   --------------
>
> A laptop directly connected to the fiber switch can pump >80Mbps to many
> points on the Internet.  Behind my router it only hits 45-60Mbps
> probably because the router was never intended to be used at this speed
> (before the speed was bumped to 100mbps there was no significant
> performance drop).  Behind the pfSense box, however, averages around
> 20-25Mbps to the Internet.  LAN to DMZ Hosts are around 55-60Mbps.
>
> The box is pretty beefy - a SuperServer 5015M-MF+B, Xeon 3040 with 1GB
> DDR2 and six Intel 1Gbps ports.  I'd be a little surprised if the
> hardware has anything to do with it.  CPU and RAM usage have never
> exceeded 10%.
>
> I tried enabling polling but that made no difference.  I've disabled the
> traffic shaper and removed most of my packages to get where I am now and
> I've run out of ideas.
>
> Anyone?

Search  google for tweaking freebsd!
I would start with tcp/udp buffers. Take a look with sysctl to the
net.inet tree.

>
> Ted Crow
> Information Technology Manager
> Tuttle Services, Inc.
>
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