What are the specs on it? Is it even x86? Steve

@tman222 Thanks for your return. Finally, i purchase : Intel X550-T2,very difficult to find true genuine card, so much chinese clone, only one true available I chose this one because it's 10GBASE-T card (copper) not very expensive (to i350-T4), more recent, less power consumption than chelsio T520-BT. With 10GBASE-T, i will be sure that my 1G WAN connexion will not be limited by bandwidth It's only 2 port, but i don't need more, i have two other ethernet port internally on my Dell R230, it will be used for ADSL and 4G connexion reduncy, no question to ask with this poor traffic usage. T540-CR, the only best card to have 4x SFP+ port with pfSense

@stephenw10 I updated the bios to the latest version and I'm still getting the same results. I'm able to assign the interface but it crashes immediately when I enable it.

@LeeR and @ALL I hope, due to 1U form i just purchase Chelsio T540-CR (quad 10G PCI card), it answer to my mean to have 3x10Gb SFP+ interface (T520 will provide only two, so i will sale it) I have 2x1G broadcom NIC interface built-in in R230 but it's not enough, i think also that this brand is not the best choice with pfSense. It rest me one PCI slot available (low profil bracket) and i would like to purchase 4x1GbE (copper) for the wan side. NIC card Intel i350-T4 seems the only compliant possibility ??? They exist v2 model, better choice i think but i see a lots of discussion related to counterfeit product. Some person says that some counterfeit are better, some other none... so i'm lost. Do you have some good/true information about it ? Other possibilities : can be to keep 2x1Gb internal broadcom NIC (for ADSL and 4G connexion) and take a 2x1 Gb or 1x1 Gb NIC card for my fiber connexion. In fact, i need to be sure that the card chosen will be perfect to handle 1Gbps bandwith at max !! can be to keep 2x1Gb internal broadcom NIC (for ADSL and 4G connexion) and use one port from T540-CR with 10GBase-T SFP+ Transceiver module (instead of SFP+), i dunno if this card accept this kind of module ?! So i just send a mail to Chelsio about this. If someone have compatibility information, i would interested ;) Many thanks for your help. EDIT : I purchased a X550-T2, it will be 2x 10GBase-T and Chelsio T540-CR, my R230 will be ready to use with Xeon E31260L v5. For intel NIC Card, i use the YottaMark* sticker, it is an authentication label. The code on the label allows you to verify the authenticity of your Intel Ethernet Adapter. Code is entered here > http://verify.yottamark.com More information here > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000007074/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products.html I hope that X550-T2 NIC will work properly with pfSense !?

i didnt move it to a windows PC but I swapped it out with another intel Pro/1000 card and the new one works fine. guess it was either a HW failure or the intel ProSet settings were saved somehow in a ROM on the card. Either way, issue resolved.

I don't know because I've never tested that but I would expect it to pass 1Gbps quite easily with firewall and NAT. If you start adding other packages or VPNs it's harder to say. Steve

I think it has a similar openvpn throughput as i5-5250u, too.

@akuma1x i am bilingual my grammar kinda bad

We are back on qinq and for each vlan (on same NIC) we created a bridge interface so each vlan bridge interface has its unique MAC address. The Huawei switch did not work with qinq and the same Mac over multiple vlans. The option to change the Mac on the vlan is greyed out and can only be changed on the parent interface. Hopes it saves someone time in the future.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/hardware/hardware-tuning-and-troubleshooting.html?highlight=nmbclusters#mbuf-exhaustion

Sorry, forgot to mention.. speedtest.net one from my isp and another from another isp

I love their website. It's like 1993 Mosaic browser

Thank you @tman222

@chrcoluk Is the drive mounted noatime? I was able to reduce a lot of writes with that option.

Ok thanks, I know Grafana pretty well and use it for data logging other items and solar stuff on my house but I just like how quick and responsive the XG-8's display is. Pretty much real-time. Maybe in my "free time" (lol) I'll start another project and try to design something that looks like it. I just need to find a cool OLED panel or something that's close to it.

Well the J1900 is pretty poor at single thread performance and also is 5 years old. The N3150 is a very low power laptop CPU. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-965-vs-Intel-Celeron-J1900-vs-Intel-Celeron-N3150/370vs2131vs2546 I should have specified almost any recent desktop/server CPU Steve

@jlibs The lights should still blink with traffic. If they do absolutely nothing then your box probably has problems.. Since they quit making those close to ten years ago they are getting very old at this point.

OpenVPN is single threaded so, for a single tunnel, you need a CPU with the fastest single thread performance you can get. I'm not sure I've seen anyone hit 1Gbps on a single tunnel, but I have not been following that closely. There are a number of threads here discussing it. It is possible to setup multiple tunnels and load-balance between them. That only helps if your traffic across the tunnel is multiple connections of course. All that assumes whatever you're connecting to can actually pass that too. Steve