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    23.09.01 Hardware Crypto showing No Hardware Crypto Acceleration for system with crypto chip installed

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Do you actually see a reduction in throughput though? Or an increase in CPU usage?

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      • JonathanLeeJ
        JonathanLee @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10 yes with use on 22.05.01.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Like throughput is lower in 23.09.1 compared to 23.05.1?

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          • JonathanLeeJ
            JonathanLee @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 let me test again hold on I turned 23.09.01 on again.

            Nope it’s 130kbs with dsl on 23.09.01
            It’s 123kb in 23.05.01

            Just checked with my pdfs again.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Hmm, those seem very low numbers. I can't imagine you'd be able to see the difference at those rates.

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee @stephenw10
                last edited by JonathanLee

                @stephenw10 low bill too :) that ID error is why I think it has issues would ath0 cause this ?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  No this is nothing to do with the ath card or newer 2100s without the crypto cert device. OpenSSL no longer supports BSD cryptodev as an engine so the option to select it was removed from OpenVPN for all hardware.

                  Which ID error are you referring to?

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                  • JonathanLeeJ
                    JonathanLee @stephenw10
                    last edited by JonathanLee

                    @stephenw10
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                    The id error shows on 23.09.01 every time does not show in 23.05.01

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Ah OK. That seems unlikely to be related to the crypto hardware. If you disable safeXcel but keep DCO enabled does it still show?

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                      • JonathanLeeJ
                        JonathanLee @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 I have to swap boot environments when my wife goes to work after that I can check.

                        To confirm you want me to disable the chip on the advanced menu?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Yes, then boot so the safexcel module is not loaded. Then check the openvpn logs again. I expect that ID error to still be present.

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                          • JonathanLeeJ
                            JonathanLee @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 side note, can I do a boot environment and load 24 dev os or will that cause issues going back to 23.09?

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Yes you can do that. There's no problem booting back to 23.09.1.

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                              • JonathanLeeJ
                                JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                last edited by JonathanLee

                                @stephenw10

                                Yes this is as you expected. It still occurs with the hardware disabled.

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Ok digging into that. I can only see one other reference to that kind of ID error.

                                  Is that process an OpenVPN server?

                                  How are the clients defined?

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                                  • JonathanLeeJ
                                    JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                    last edited by JonathanLee

                                    @stephenw10

                                    I also see this id error in my 23.05.01 ssd on connects. I didn’t notice it until today

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                                    • PippinP
                                      Pippin @JonathanLee
                                      last edited by Pippin

                                      I see no error in the logs posted above but that aside.....

                                      The message

                                      dco_update_peer_stat: invalid peer ID 0 returned by kernel
                                      

                                      is not related to the issue described.
                                      This can happen if userland has already forgotten a peer and kernel sends "post-disconnect stats" which seems to be the case

                                      openvpn server 'ovpns1' user 'LeeFamilyVPN'address 'x.x.x.x' disconnected
                                      

                                      right after the message.

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by stephenw10

                                        Yup that's not an error that should ever prevent the service starting or cause connection issues etc.
                                        Or has anything to do with hardware crypto support.

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                                        • JonathanLeeJ
                                          JonathanLee @stephenw10
                                          last edited by

                                          @stephenw10 how can I prevent this issue?

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            You don't have to it's not an error that causes an problems.

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