On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Lenny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > thanks for answering, > > I'm using 1.2.2 ( it scares me a bit to use a non-stable version in > production). >
It's stable. See: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=377 > I do realize it might be a problem with FreeBSD rather than pfSense, > especially that I saw a couple of related posts on the net(without > solution). There's no "might be", it is. > What I can't understand is how come a lot of people here talking about > pushing 300-400kpps, and I can't even do 20?! I believe my hardware is up to > at least 200, don't you think? > Yes, though other people in certain circumstances have hit this same thing with stock FreeBSD, and it doesn't seem there was ever any resolution to those, as you said. I suspect these scenarios are more about something to do with the motherboard, or a BIOS quirk, or something of that nature than the NICs themselves. Other things I would try: - Reset BIOS to its defaults - Upgrade the BIOS - try a completely different piece of hardware, even with the same NICs > Unless you tell me it's all related to a kind of traffic, meaning that a > website with a lot of small files (no more than 500KB) has hit the limit > here. > No, that's irrelevant. It has an impact on your pps rates, but you're well under what you should be able to push. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
