* Sebastian Reitenbach <[email protected]> [2011-12-02 15:22]: > On Friday, December 2, 2011 15:04 CET, Kenneth R Westerback > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:08:57PM +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to tune the network speed of OpenBSD box for high bandwidht, > > > and high latency. > > > The box is connected to a 155MBit Internet uplink. > > > > > > Hosts I have here next to me: > > > An old OpenBSD 4.4 box, used as server firewall, in front of a Linux http > > > server. > > > A new OpenBSD 5.0 box, used as http server. > > > A Linux OpenSUSE 11.2 box, used as http server. > > > > > > Further I have: > > > A Linux based VM in Canada, which I use as client. > > > and using OpenBSD mirror artifiles.org as reference host. > > > > > > First tests with the OpenBSD 4.4 firewall: > > > > I got lost in the subsequent description of events, and came away with the > > impression that while you shuffled the clients and http servers around you > > did not change the firewall. Is this correct? If so, upgrading the firewall > > to 5.0 or -current is the easiest action likely to improve performance. > > thanks for your answer, and sorry if my writing were not clear enough as I > hoped it to be, I try to clarify: > > One test was with a Linux Web Server behind the OpenBSD 4.4 firewall here in > Germany. > When I download from the Linux VM in Canada, then I get about 2MB/s. > > The other test is with a desktop, not behind the OpenBSD 4.4 Firewall, with > two harddisks. > One with Linux OpenSUSE 11.2, one with OpenBSD 5.0. This desktop is directly > connected to the 155MBit Internet line, parallel to the firewall. > Downloading on the Linux VM in Canada from the OpenSUSE 11.2 box, I get > around 2.6MB/s, just switching the Harddisk on the desktop > and downloading from the OpenBSD 5.0 I only get around 1.5MB/s. > So in this case, the 4.4 Firewall is not involved at all. > I'd at least hoped to get the same speed with the OpenBSD 5.0 like I get > using Linux, so about 2.6MB/s. > > hope its more clear now.
well, you actually found the answer yourself. if your em is running at 100M the 10MByte/s download is superb. Why it isn't going to gig - dunno. your other issue is wasting time, electrons, energy and whatnot with calomel.org garbage. if someone feels like he could do the broader community a favor, track down whoever runs that site and at least ask him to remove that network tuning on openbsd page. or better all pages he has about openbsd - all garbage, bad advice, plain wrong, you get the idea. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
