Here are the results of the test you have asked : 

gregober 21:15:31 ~ -> iperf -c 1.2.3.5
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 1.2.3.5, TCP port 5001
TCP window size:  129 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.10.2 port 60681 connected with 1.2.3.5 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.07 GBytes   919 Mbits/sec

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS freshly baked. 


I think this has to be compared to this test : 

> WITHOUT PACKET FILTERING ENABLED 
> gregober 18:40:12 ~ -> iperf -c 1.2.3.4
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to 1.2.3.4, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size:  129 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.1.199 port 53391 connected with 1.2.3.4 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.03 GBytes   882 Mbits/sec

Results are somewhat similar…

My main question is why when filtering is enabled do we loose 75% of the 
throughput… 

Is this normal figures or not ? 


Thank you. 


Le 7 sept. 2010 à 11:15, Paul Mansfield a écrit :

> On 06/09/10 21:58, bsd wrote:
>> I have made a simple configuration which looks like that : 
>> 
>> Station_1 <<< WAN >>> pfSense_FW <<< LAN >>> Station_2
> 
> it'd be interesting to compare the same hardware running linux; if you
> don't feel like installing, boot a live CD; just ifconfig the
> interfaces, and turn on IP routing  and disable any filtering thus:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 $WANADDRESS
> ifconfig eth1 $LANADDRESS
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> iptables -I FORWARD -j ACCEPT
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