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gns3 cluster at esxi bottleneck #2250

Open Sardaukai opened 1 year ago

Sardaukai commented 1 year ago

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Hi all, I made some benchmark tests with our gns3vm servers (2.2.40.1). It was really good, but I found one bottleneck. I used iperf3 in order to get a measurable throughput.

Linux_A to Debian PASS: ping PASS: iperf3 ~2Gbit/s

Cluster, working, but slow: Linux_A is connected directly via eth1 with GNS_Cloud_A Linux_B is connected directly via eth1 with GNS_Cloud_B

PASS: ping from Linux_A to Linux_B PASS: iperf3 ~50 Mbit/s

Cluster with bottleneck: Linux_A is connected via br1 with GNS_Cloud_A Linux_B is connected via br1 with GNS_Cloud_B

FAIL: ping

Error: prePing - arp request, is sent from Linux_A to Linux_B I am able to see the reply with tcpdump at interfaces A_br1 and A_eth1 but not at gns3tap0-0 or with wireshark at cable to Linux_A

Workaround: I set static arp addresses on both sides.

PASS: ping PASS: iperf3 about 1 Gbit/s

Question: Is there a way to configure the vm without that workaround? I monitored iptables, arptables, ebtables and different driver settings without any hint of a drop. Unicasts from Debian working fine, but every unicast frame from Linux_B to Linux_A hits A_br1 and A_eth1 but not gns3tap0-0 or at cable to Linux_A. It is simply gone ;/

Sardaukai commented 1 year ago

Just another workaround: UDP tunnels at the cloud device instead of ethX or brX, works as point-to-point connection, got about 1 Gbit/s again :smile:

elico commented 8 months ago

@Sardaukai Can you share a little more details? I am not sure I understood the setup you have in the illustration. I have tried to connect my GNS3 VM guests to the LAN using a Cloud node and found a way to make it work very very fast. It works as expected, please take a look at: https://www.gns3.com/slow-speeds-on-cloud-node-anyone-else