topic Re: Firewall Throughput in General Topics

Firewall Throughput

Sjoerd — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:49:55 GMT

We have a PA3050 in a very simple setup.

1 outside interface and 2 inside interfaces (aggregated).

A few times a week our clients complain about performance. During this time the firewall is generating 1Gb throughput (flat-line).

However, the throughput on the 3 interfaces combined together wont reach the 500Mbit.

Can someone explain what this throughput exactly is and why its higher than our interface statistics?

Re: Firewall Throughput

OtakarKlier — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:42:55 GMT

Hello,

How are you calculating the throughput? The two internal interfaces will never generate more than the 1G, so looking at the 1 external would give the better indication. Also are you maxing out the sessions or one of the other specs? VPN throughput is only 500 Mbps.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/datasheets/pa-3000-series-specsheet

Just a thought.

Re: Firewall Throughput

Sjoerd — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 06:58:49 GMT

During this Gbit throughput the outside interface (facing the internet) is peeking to a maximum of 300Mbit.

There are no VPN connections in the firewall an di dont see any other spec maxing out.