Hello - sorry if this is beating a dead horse. I have 2 PCAP files captured during a write between two hosts. I am needing someone to look at these PCAP files and help analyze them and possibly see where the issue lies. Long story short - we are only achieving about 20% BW on 10GB local LAN pipe. Any suggestions for a newbie would be great. Thanks for you time. CM asked 26 Mar '14, 08:19  chrissezhi |
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well, I don't think that someone here will be able/willing to look at two capture files taken on 10GB links, as that's quite a lot of data and a time consuming task. How would you even provide those capture files for download?? I think it's better to look for a networking guru in your 'neighborhood' who is able to check your capture files and your network setup. We can (probably) help you to look at the capture files yourself. To start with some simple things first:
Regards answered 26 Mar '14, 08:53  Kurt Knochner ♦ edited 26 Mar '14, 08:54 |
With TCP you have a maximum possible troughput between two hosts regardless of the bandwith. In the packet capture look at the Window Size and Round Trip Time of the connection and use the link below to calculate the maximum troughput and optimal TCP buffer size: https://www.switch.ch/network/tools/tcp_throughput/index.html answered 27 Mar '14, 14:45  Roland |
Thanks Kurt for the reply.
The setup was as followings. Used Lan Speed Test to write a 10GB file from host a to host b. In Wireshark, I filter the capture to only listen for Host A to Host B. Ran the test and stopped the capture.
Only 20% - because I can not get over 2GB when looking at performance. Via Wireshark Not sure, that is what I was hoping to find out. Using LAN Speed Test - simple write file. No Jumbo Frames.
so, the 20% is a metric printed by Wireshark?