Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:53:03 -0800 From: Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu> To: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me. Message-ID: <4EC0585F.5000104@soe.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EC055CB.40100@soe.ucsc.edu> References: <4EC033B7.5080609@soe.ucsc.edu> <4EC0395C.3030302@swin.edu.au> <4EC055CB.40100@soe.ucsc.edu>
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> I suspect my firewall *is* the cause of the packet loss, unfortunately. > We're sending multiple streams in from multiple sources and > destinations, but the aggregate bandwidth coming into the firewall is > consistent no matter how many sources and destinations we have. It maxes > at about 2Gb/s. That's why I was trying to tweak the firewall, to try > and get that number up. Sorry, to be clear, the *average* bandwidth was like 2Gb/s, I'm really trying to dodge the sawtooth traffic pattern in some way, I see it go up to 3Gb/s every once in a while. I was hoping to achieve getting closer to 3Gb/s on average by adding buffers to my firewall, but maybe that isn't the answer... I tried Jason's suggestions earlier but it didn't seem to help much unfortunately.
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