Bug in GUI for tuneables?

pooperman

Hil Folks,

trying to teach my ESXi virtualized pfSense to talk 10GBE.

I checked the options proposed in the manual
link

dev.vmx.#.iflib.override_ntxds="0,4096"
dev.vmx.#.iflib.override_nrxds="0,2048,0"

entering the value in tuneable gives error:

The following input errors were detected:

    The value may only contain alphanumeric characters, -, _, %, and /.

is that on purpose or a bug?

stephenw10

Like it says in the note there you need to replace the # with the actual interface number(s). So for example:

dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_ntxds="0,4096"
dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_nrxds="0,2048,0"

Steve

mvikman

@stephenw10

"Tunables may be set per network interface, with # replaced by a device id such as 0, 1, etc."

I think that this sentence could also be understood as "if you want to change setting per interface, then replace # with device id, otherwise it is set globally"
Especially non-native English speakers like myself.

stephenw10

Mmm, I see what you're saying. Let me look into it...

pooperman

@stephenw10

I think it is not the string, causing this error, it is the value . (point) or , (comma) mentioned in the guideline but not accepted by the gui.

however, as mvikman mentioned, the # might also be a point to check.

johnpoz

@pooperman I was chatting with steve about this - and believe they are checking the wording to make it clearer that "#" is just a place holder for documentation.

I "believe" they are discussing making the wording clearer for users not all that familiar with such nomenclature be it non native English speakers or just not all that familiar with setting such values.

jimp

I updated the wording on that doc a few hours ago, should hopefully be more clear now.

pooperman

@johnpoz

thanks for this, but this is not the topic I raised.

please try to enter a value with a ,

jimp

Re-read the section of the docs again. That isn't a tunable you can put in the GUI. It must be manually entered into /boot/loader.conf.local.

pooperman

@jimp

oh wow.

I need to apologize. Must have it overlooked.
Sorry wasting your time. Its clear now.

stephenw10

Although for that value it probably could be either:

[22.05-RELEASE][admin@cedev-3.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_ntxds="0,4096"
dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_ntxds: 0,2048 -> 0,4096

Adding it as a loader variable works past that.

Steve