pf deadly slow

sven falempin sven.falempin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 14:48:47 UTC 2013


configure ALTQ (maybe the absence of configurating is not nicely working),
i think freebsd has virtio support ,

i am interested in the result :-)


OpenBSD  is currently completly rewriting the queing system
and improving performance.




On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Stephane D'Alu
<Stephane.DAlu at insa-lyon.fr>wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 9.2 inside VirtualBox with virtio for the nework
> card. pf is compiled with ALTQ support.
>
> My pf.conf file is as follow, which do nearly nothing:
>  set skip on lo0
>  set skip on vnet0
>
> If pf is enabled, bandwith drop by a 1000 factor!
> From 10Mb/s to 4Kb/s
>
> Any idea, what's going on?
>
>
> PS:
> - I have the same kind of configuration FreeBSD 9.2, pf + ALTQ
> and real firewall rules on a non virtualized server and everything is fine.
> - I will try to remove ALTQ and use em driver instead, to see if there
> is a performance improvement
>
> Sincerly
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> Stephane D'Alu -- Ingenieur Recherche
> Laboratoire CITI / INSA-Lyon
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