Software Switch performance

[AdrianOlson]

I have a FWF-60D that i have created a software switch to bridge the Internal and WIFI networks into a single network. I also have a DMZ network, but when I do a file transfer to the DMZ network from the internal, I only get about 23MB/s. While transferring I also see the CPU usage @ 100%. Is this a by product of the software switch? my knowledge leads me to believe in this scenario I am CPU limited and not hardware limited (GbE). Am I on the right track? Are there any other ways to achieve this?

[rwpatterson]

Not quite your answer, but I have the WiFi (wlan), wan2, Internal2, Internal4 and Internal6 built into a switch in NAT/Route mode on a FWF80CM without issue. The DHCP is forwarded to a Windows box, and both wired and wireless share the same IP address space happily. Hope that does something for your testing. Here' s an idea for you:

Create a second VDOM in NAT/Route mode

Create a VLAN, same number on both

Pass the VLAN traffic across the inter VDOM links

Bridge the VLAN and internal on one, and the VLAN and WiFi on the other.

[ede_pfau]

No doubt it works, the original question was about the performance hit. As I said, the 80C still is a work horse with a decent CPU. Not comparable to the 60D, 90D, 100D which boast high throughput for accelerated traffic but falter with SSL traffic and soft switching. With a newer model, it would be best to pick a model with hardware switch support.

[ShrewLWD]

Old thread, but still an issue for us... 5.2 does not solve the issue of a wifi, in a transparent VDOM, not broadcasting its SSID.

[nothingel]

I' m also interested in trying this transparent vdom idea. Have you tried reversing the process where the wifi is in the root vdom? I find that wifi always taxes the CPU even without bridging. Is this everyone else' s experience? I' m talking about a FWF-60C here. I also cannot obtain speeds faster than about 20Mbit/s over wifi. This is fairly good for " g" speeds but I also see this for " N" speeds on either 2.4 or 5ghz (the clients show 130 or 270mbps connection rates).