@mcarson75 said in i226-V not getting expected speed:

However, if I connect to the same server from pfsense I am only getting about 500 megabit:

In normal it would make more sense in my eyes, if you connect the sender
(server 1) and the receiver (server 2) to the pfSense without any switches
between the set up and then you make the test once more again.

If you will see then something between 2,3x GBit/s and count the TCP/IP
overhead on top you may be ending with nearly 2,5 GBit/s the pfSense
were able to route, because it was running pure through the pfSense
box.

Hmm, seems like that device might be in some odd mode then. The virtual CD drive function doesn't require any sort of driver. The USB ID implies it should be there but isn't for some reason.

I would check it in Windows. If it has some setup utility make sure it hasn't been set with something odd.

There is no thermal sensor on the 1100 SoC that pfSense can read.

Steve

It's common to have a few errors especially if it was recently disconnected. That looks high though. Check the cable.

That's not going to affect anything at 1G rates.

What is that port linked at on the modem? It's a 10Gbase-T port?

As I explained I would expect to find no way to set that adapter to 1G. It will only link correctly at 10G. That fact it works at all though seems to imply it probably is linked at 10G....

@uplink

How I’ve configured it works for my case and card and is easily tested as with it enabled I have 90% packet loss and with it disabled it works and zero loss

Thanks for all the help and to @stephenw10

That package includes a kernel module which means it has to be build against the pfSense kernel specifically. We don;t build that pkg so you would likely need to build it yourself which is non-trivial!

You might add a comment here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12300

@Iron_Man

Did this... and it works nicely.

Last year I got a used Mac mini 2014 with 8GB RAM for a great price. Installed two left over Thunderbolt Ethernet adaptors and ProxMox virtualisation software.
This runs pfSense, next to a few small VM for automation and other stuff. I even have a VM with macOS Monterey for occiasional testing purposes on it and this all works quite well.

For pfSense I assigned 2GB memory and 200GB virtual storage. And I added a few tweaks for better performance for multi core CPU's
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#pppoe-with-multi-queue-nics

pfSense works fast. Great throughput.

@Epimpin So, back to initial questions, which PCIe slot would be better in this certain case ?

Your opinion…

Excellent, thanks!

thanks all for trying to help! I'm giving up and looking for a new box.

You can't open a support ticket without a subscription, that's true.

Ah, nice! I run that at 80 on an i5-6400T for reference. Seems about optimal for my use but that's just a test box, it's not always on.

Good question, I've never seen one to find out. I imagine it would have to be in the QAT driver or possibly the crypto framework.

Thanks for all

I found a link on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2mI0myAEXA
I will try booting from the Linux kernel.
If this is done perfectly, we will discuss the rest of the hardware.
It will be a fun experience

@stephenw10 said in Intel x550-t2 can not disable flow control properly:

hw.ix.flow_control=0

Thank you, this one worked 👍

@glippi Hello, after swapping out the intel 82599 10 gigabit dual port and moving this to the onboard ethernet with PCI passthrough to the VM, it seems everything is stable now.
the AHCI errors, however consistent with disks (as far as I can see), it seems that in this case it was with the ethernet controller.
My guess it was just a faulty card as since moving over I have had no issues now for 18 days.

If you would like any logs, please let me know which one you would like to see for further investigation on this.

@stephenw10 Thank you very much for the detailed response.

@stephenw10 said in NIC issues and advise:

It could be in a shellcmd:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/boot-commands.html?highlight=shellcmd#shellcmd-option

thanks i managed to find it and remove it.

issue has not happened in a week or so now.

Next step is to figure out the realtek nic issue.

The igc driver/hardware can only be autoselect. For some reason setting it to that specifically can cause it to go into a loop of some sort as your saw.

You could try setting it to 2.5G which will prevent it linking at 1G. It still negotiates that though so if the modem for some reason stops allowing 2.5G it will just fail to link.