Smoothwall Bottleneck Issue

[Mudbar]

We have a S8 smoothwall appliance and our download speeds seems to be getting bottlenecked.

 

I am getting around 60Mbps download when going through the smoothwall appliance. When I bypass the smoothwall appliance I am getting around 700Mbps.

 

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

[bknaggs]

I was told by Smoothwall that an S8 should give about 700mbps throughout.

 

I’d probably log a ticket for a once over of your setup.

 

Unless you’ve accidentally plugged it into a 100mbps switch.

[CrootUK]

We had the supermicro s8 for many years at one site which handled gigabit broadband fine. Edited October 16, 2023 by CrootUK

[synaesthesia]

Running any AV like Sophos? Anything else that's doing inspection as well as Smoothwall is going to give it a hard time.

[howartp]

Bandwidth limiting?

 

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We had it on when we had a 100mb line and forgot to remove it when we got 1Gb fibre.

[Mudbar]

I have logged a ticket with smoothwall. They are checking through. I will have a look at the bandwidth limiting

 

We are also due for a renewal next month. Would it make sense to upgrade to S9? We keep getting system load warning emails from smoothwall and potentially going 1-2-1 next year.

 

Many thanks

[ibpalle]

We keep getting system load warning emails from smoothwall and potentially going 1-2-1 next year.

 

The load warning is triggered by a parameter set in the report - alerts - alerts settings. If that parameter is still at default, that will cause too many alerts to be sent. The value needs to be adjusted to a sensible value for your appliance. Set it to 8.

[Mudbar]

I will set it to 8 so not getting as many warning load messages. We have no bandwidth limiting policy on the S8. They have said they will send me a demo S9 unit to test as this needs sorting before we decide to renew. They also said the S8 might not be able to handle a 1GB connection which seems rather odd!