Was messing around with iperf and noticed something weird in pfsense

[Red Squirrel]

I was bored and wanted to see what kind of sustained speeds I can get between various hosts so I transfered 100GB between two vlans using iperf.

[root@vpnsrv ~]# iperf -c borg.loc -n 100G
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to borg.loc, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 19.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 10.5.1.5 port 60875 connected with 10.1.1.10 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-1003.6 sec    100 GBytes    856 Mbits/sec

But then look at the graph, it's saying I only transferred 10GB?



Why is that? I tend to rely on those stats to get an idea of my internet usage, not that it matters much since my ISP is unlimited, but I expect stats to actually be real. This is WAY off. Anyone else ever notice this?

 

[rma]

are you sure that -n 100G works?

-n, --bytes n[KM]
number of bytes to transmit (instead of -t)

try using -n 100000M

 

[Dawizman]

Yeah, pretty sure you can only specify -n in K or M.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It does say that it transferred that much though, and the time it took was fairly on par for a gigabit network and the speed shown. I will have to experiment again with an actual file transfer.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah definitely some oddity going on, I just tested with an actual file transfer via HTTP. Server the 10GB (randomly generated from /dev/urandom to rule out any kind of caching) file was hosted on is on a different vlan so the traffic is going through firewall. I can see the graph spike accordingly for that vlan's interface, well both vlans involved, but the value of actual data transfer does not reflect what was transferred. Am I maybe reading that wrong and that number means something else?

Can anyone with pfsense confirm this behaviour? I'm just wondering if it's by design or something wrong with my install.