Re: Vmware Tools and pfSense

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> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:10:52 -0500
> From: "Bill Marquette" <bill.marquette@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Vmware Tools and pfSense
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> FWIW, while the lnc device reports as 10Mbit, it'll actually 
> do more.
> It's still slower than either the vmware tools driver or the 
> e1000
> interface, but it's definitely faster than 10Mbit.
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>

Hello,
doing some basic test (a simple secure network copy of some hundreds MB) it 
even seems that performances are a bit erratic, ranging from 30Mb/s to less 
than 5Mb/s. Odd enough, the performance follows a ´worsening´ pattern, the 
first file transfer performs at full speed, while the second and subsequent 
ones go at a very lower rate. Also, netstat -i reports a significant  amount of 
input errors on lnc0, about 0,5 % of the total exchanged packets.
 
On one occasion, the network copy stalled and the lnc0 interface stopped 
working - a reboot on the pfSense virtual box was required, done from the 
pfSense controlling console.
Has anyone eventually had better experience with pfSense and vmware?
Thanks, Marco