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Date:      Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:36:15 +0400
From:      "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw rules consuming CPU
Message-ID:  <4FD3352F.5060007@FreeBSD.org>
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On 09.06.2012 15:19, Sami Halabi wrote:
> Hi,
> all rules togther less than 80 rules....
However, it is too much.
You should reduce this to 10 rules or less (at least for main traffic flow).


(Btw, there is related http://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkPerformanceTuning 
wiki page)


>
> how tablearg helps this? each ip & pipe (up & down) are unique...
ipfw table 1 add 182.46.92.0/24 1000
ipfw table 1 add XXX.XXX.XX.0/24 1001
..
ipfw table 2 add 182.46.92.0/24 1002
ipfw table 2 add XXX.XXX.XX.0/24 1003

ipfw add 4000 pipe tablearg from table(1) to any out xmit bce1
ipfw add 4100 pipe tablearg from any to table(1) in recv bce1


It is often a good idea to split in/out rules initially (e.g. skipto 
10000 ip from any to any out)

You can send me your ipfw config and we can discuss it more detailed.

>
> any other advices?
>
> Sami
>
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Alexander V. Chernikov
> <melifaro@freebsd.org <mailto:melifaro@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 09.06.2012 01:56, Sami Halabi wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I Manage a FreeBSD server as an edge router&  firewall.
>
>         the setup has 10G interfaces (ixgbe-82599EB) and 1G
>         interfaces(em-82571EB&
>         bce-BCM5709) connected to 10G/1G switches.
>
>         With the following setup i get higher cpu usage:
>         bce1-upstream provider with little bandwidth, so i use pipes to
>         limit
>         users, and subnets
>         ix0 - Internet Exchange
>
>         some rules.
>         .
>         .
>         .from 4000 starts pipes for specefic ips bandwidth allocations
>         04000    6210053001    5845967300616 pipe 1003 ip from
>         182.46.92.13 to any
>         out xmit bce1
>         04100   41289897537    3064110648124 pipe 1004 ip from any to
>         182.46.92.13
>         in recv bce1
>
>     You should use pipe tablearg for that. Traversing 4k rules
>     effectively kills all performance.
>
>
>         .
>         .
>         .
>         .7000 is the wider pipeline for the whole block
>         07000    9127154724    4651308720315 pipe 1000 ip from
>         182.46.92.0/24 <http://182.46.92.0/24>; to
>         any out xmit bce1
>         07100    4837016828     458027989917 pipe 1002 ip from any to
>         182.46.92.0/24 <http://182.46.92.0/24>; in recv bce1
>         last rule default to accept...
>
>         specefic pipes (1003-...) have limits say between 1-10Mbps, and
>         the wider
>         pipe (1000 and 1002) has a global limit of 40MBps that should be
>         reached by
>         all other non-specefic ips, config like this:
>         #Wide
>         ipfw pipe 1000 config bw 40Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1002 config bw 40Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         #specefic
>         ipfw pipe 1003 config bw 9Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1004 config bw 9Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1005 config bw 3Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1006 config bw 3Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1007 config bw 5Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1008 config bw 5Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1009 config bw 10Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>         ipfw pipe 1010 config bw 10Mbit/s queue 200Kbytes
>
>
>         with this configuration when i have lots of traffic (3-6GB)
>         going via ix0
>         (not necessarly the ips described above, lets say to a server in
>         my net ip
>         1832.46.93.4 and users behind the Internet Exchange) i see high
>         cpu usage
>         (70-90%).
>
>         my first test was to: ipfw add 1 allow all from any to any, and
>         cpu usage
>         drops immediatly to 10-15%.
>         but that not why i want (i wantto keep thelimits) so I add rule
>         right
>         before 4000 and the cpu usage drops down to 10-20%:
>         03020 1669463072808 1493341413029803 allow ip from any to any
>         via ix0
>
>
>         Any advice why this happens? or should it be there in the first
>         place?
>         I use FreeBSD 8.1-R-p10-amd64.
>
>         Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>     --
>     WBR, Alexander
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sami Halabi
> Information Systems Engineer
> NMS Projects Expert
> FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert
>


-- 
WBR, Alexander



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