Were you able to resolve this? Steve

The 1541 has an PCIe 3.0 x16 slot that has 4 lanes available (x4). Theoretically you can use either of those cards since PCIe will simply use the available lanes. The total throughput to the card would be reduced but that's unlikely to be a limiting factor in pfSense. Steve

@ahxcjay said in Throughput problems on 4100: @keyser said in Throughput problems on 4100: We alle want to help, but it’s not very motivating when posts like yours just flame the product Fair point, and I apologise. I was just so frustrated that I really really like the produt, yet the upload speeds were killing my enjoyment of it. I asked the mods to change $subject to something more appropriate. The problem is that google searches from people also finds this post, and some people only read headlines…. Understand, and that was in my thinking also, hence the request to change the $subject. This post on the other hand, just earns the full respect of all of us We can all make mistakes, especially when frustrated - but it takes a real man to own up to it, acknowledge a mistake was made and apologise. If only all people showed this kind of respect instead of fleeing the “crime scene”, the Internet would be SO much a better place. Thank you for responding and kudos to you

@rico said in A Very Happy Customer...: Wow, nice rack! -Rico Not bad for a home network. :)

Board manual shows: Up to 128GB of DDR4 ECC RDIMM or 64GB of DDR4 ECC/Non-ECC UDIMM with speeds up to 2133MHz. Which seems unclear. It has to match what's already in the though which should be 8 GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM. Steve

That doc is a bit old really. Loading AES-NI by itself is better in anything after 22.01. The BSD crypto device is not used by anything usefully from that point on. OpenVPN (OpenSSL) will use AES-NI directly if the CPU supports it OpenVPN with DCO enabled will use it with the AES-NI module loaded as will IPSec. And yes anything with QAT support should use that instead. Steve

@hescominsoon You might want to consider tnsr first and then breaking down past that for the firewall needs. Beyond that you might want to think about overall throughput. 1700 units over 10g is about 6mbps per location. You're talking about giving residents 8x that throughput - you will hit congestion at times, possibly very often.

@fsc830 @rcoleman-netgate thank you for your answers. I just opened a ticket to Netgate support.

@ggilley FWIW, I've used the QNAP QSW-308-1C with the unified RJ45/SFP+. That worked, and so did the Planet Technologies XT-705A. I've also tried the UniFi Flex XG, and that didn't work. For some reason the ATT router didn't want to passthrough or assign an IP, but I could manually assign an address on the subnet (vs passthrough). The other thing to be mindful of, performance compared to the on-router speedtest. The HUMAX router seems to lose about 300Mbps, and then the media converters may lose a bit too. Another FYI, unlocking x710 for any SFP+ module https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/unlocking-any-brand-sfp-modules-on-intel-x710.29040/ unlocking x520 for any SFP+ module https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/patching-intel-x520-eeprom-to-unlock-all-sfp-transceivers.24634/ Follow up with what kind of performance you get. I've noticed all sorts of variations with different equipment. It's hard to say what's best, even though they all sync on the AT&T side.

Great result. The MAC addresses you have there should be sequential and I don't believe they were. If you don't see sequential MACs in pfSense you might want to open a new ticket with support and get the full set of uboot envs for your specific device to be sure. Steve

@rcoleman-netgate said in Factory Reset or Corrupted Image: In this system it does not do a FR at all, just a system-level reset like you'd find on a desktop PC So, it's like the power cord : a perfect way for totally messing up the disk file system. @voltron7552 : every time you reset the device with that button, or the power is removed witthout doing a user initiated power down using the GUI or console SSH access, option 6, run asap this : How to Run a pfSense Software File System Check (5/2020) This is not optional.

@keyser This is a specific issue with FreeBSD, not specifically a pfSense issue. There are a number of things that the FreeBSD core OS isn't capable of at the moment but are moving towards so hopefully in the coming years some of those things might be.... more capable?

Got a long enough SFP+ DAC cable to try, and it works fine between the 1537 and FS.com media converter. So the failure with using 10GBASE-SR must just be some auto-negotiation issue with those SFP+ modules, that only occurs with the media converter setup.

There have never been CE images for any ARM platform and there are no plans to do so. Nothing has changed there. However you could upgrade your VMs to Plus if you want them to all be running the same version. There's no issue with running a mix of CE and Plus installs though. It could be argued that the differences between ARM and x86 are larger than those between Plus and CE so it may not make much difference in that respect. Steve

Simply rebooting is often what shows up some long standing problem. It's why we always recommend rebooting before running an upgrade. Many firewalls only ever get rebooted at upgrade but that's when you're most likely to see a hardware failure and if you don't test that it looks like a problem with the upgrade. Steve

@stephenw10 Thanks a lot, everything is up and running on latest version

an additional question to this post: does anybody know what the definition of "small", "medium" and "large" business is? in all recommendations from netgate they define it in this scale but I was not able to find a hint where they explaine what they think that small, medium and large is?

Mmm, that should have been clear when we issued the RMA. Please let me know if you still have questions or if we have a hole in our process that needs attention. Steve

Mmm, as far as I know this is the first report of it we've seen. The 3100 has a switch but it doesn't use a lagg or vlans by default. Only the 7100 does that. Steve