Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Palo Alto Prisma Access client bandwidth degradation

We just recently purchase Palo Alto's Prisma access solution and notice that bandwidth is for users with high speed internet (1gbps). At first I thought this could be a wifi interference problem or something else, so to isolate out all those variables, I decided to run these test on a linux server with GP 5.0.9 on GCP.

I seem to have found some very interesting statistics. I used a n1-standard-8 (8cpus, 30gb ram) instance and ran the test with and without the GP client. Here are the stats...

``` -------------WITH GP-----------------------
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 31.575 ms
Download: 250.10 Mbit/s
Upload: 230.51 Mbit/s
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 28.773 ms
Download: 241.40 Mbit/s
Upload: 214.32 Mbit/s
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 28.729 ms
Download: 243.25 Mbit/s
Upload: 203.31 Mbit/s

--------------WITHOUT GP -------------------
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 32.858 ms
Download: 2088.64 Mbit/s
Upload: 221.67 Mbit/s
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 30.414 ms
Download: 1978.77 Mbit/s
Upload: 210.96 Mbit/s
user@instance-3:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 23.552 ms
Download: 1390.41 Mbit/s Upload: 240.83 Mbit/s
```

Looks like the download has a cap of 250Mbit/s as GP can't get past that in the download. But without GP, I get greater than 1,000Mbit/s.

Has anyone else run into similar speed issues?



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