Re: Throughput problem

"Simon Matter" <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jan 2024 19:05:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.shorewall
Message-ID <8d99335e3c29dd76740714e8034a5c55.20240108190524.1704737124@xxl.corp.invoca.ch>
> Shorewall version 5.2.8 on RHEL 7 virtualized on Ovirt hypervisors,
> routing and filtering traffic between 5 networks full of VMs via VLANs
> in Ovirt.
> All virtual VM interfaces (including Shorewall VM), are on 10 Gbps.
>
> Effective speed between VMs on same network segment is full 10 Gbps.
>
> Speed between different networks that go trough Shorewall hardly ever
> reaches 1 Gbps.
> What can be done to achieve full throughput of traffic going trough
> Shorewall?

We don't know what exactly you're doing with Shorewall here, but, if you
run your tests after 'shorewall clear', do you then see your expected
throughput?

Regards,
Simon