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      Antibiotic @bmeeks
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      @bmeeks Traffic shaping for my experience in pfSense , one more question can you tell me FreeBSD command to check specific NIC model and firmware revision in terminal?

      pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
      CPU: Intel N100
      NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
      RAM : 16 GB DDR5
      Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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        Antibiotic @bmeeks
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        @bmeeks This one got from command:
        igc0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x 125c subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
        vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
        device = 'Ethernet Controller I226-V'
        class = network
        subclass = ethernet

        Can you please tell me, where can check by this info NIC support options?

        pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
        CPU: Intel N100
        NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
        RAM : 16 GB DDR5
        Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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          bmeeks @Antibiotic
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          @Antibiotic said in Intel NIC I-226V:

          @bmeeks This one got from command:
          igc0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x 125c subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
          vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
          device = 'Ethernet Controller I226-V'
          class = network
          subclass = ethernet

          Can you please tell me, where can check by this info NIC support options?

          Here is where the driver for that hardware family was introduced into FreeBSD and thus pfSense (both the i225 and i226 are the same NIC family): https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d7388d33b4dd. If you look through the git diff you can find the man page showing the supported tunables.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            You can see what the driver/hardware is reporting as capable like:

            [24.03-BETA][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -vvm igc0
            igc0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
            	options=48020b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
            	capabilities=4f43fbb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
            	ether 00:08:a2:12:ec:d4
            	media: Ethernet autoselect
            	status: no carrier
            	supported media:
            		media autoselect
            		media 2500Base-T
            		media 1000baseT
            		media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
            		media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
            		media 100baseTX
            		media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
            		media 10baseT/UTP
            	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
            	drivername: igc0
            

            That is the same NIC in the 4200:

            [24.03-BETA][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: pciconf -lv igc0
            igc0@pci0:25:0:0:	class=0x020000 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x125c subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
                vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
                device     = 'Ethernet Controller I226-V'
                class      = network
                subclass   = ethernet
            
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              Antibiotic @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 Ok, thank's

              pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
              CPU: Intel N100
              NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
              RAM : 16 GB DDR5
              Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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                Antibiotic @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 But actually, is it normally in case of working suricata, crowdsec and traffic shaping limiters (up to 95% of max capacity in Limiters) my ISP speed going down to 60%/70% of max capacity ( 1GB Up/Down)?

                pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                CPU: Intel N100
                NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                Brgds, Archi

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  No.
                  However what is seemingly quite common with those N100/N200 CPUs is the speed/power values passed by the BIOS result in slow running. Check the CPU frequency reported during the test.

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                    Antibiotic @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 during speed test result:
                    Intel(R) N100
                    Current: 2922 MHz, Max: 806 MHz
                    4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
                    AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)

                    pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                    CPU: Intel N100
                    NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                    RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                    Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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                      Antibiotic @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 Power Savings - Intel Speed Shift
                      Speed ShiftEnable Speed Shift

                      Current State: Active
                      Control Level
                      Core Level Control (Recommended)

                      Core-level control is the best practice in most cases, especially for hardware with only a single physical CPU. Changing this setting requires a reboot.

                      Current Active Level: Core
                      Power PreferencePerformanceEnergy Efficiency
                      50

                      pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                      CPU: Intel N100
                      NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                      RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                      Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Mmm, OK. That seems good.
                        I'd also try runing top -HaSP whist testing to see the per core CPU load at the time.

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                          Antibiotic @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 Power Savings - PowerD
                          PowerD Disabled
                          AC Power
                          Hiadaptive
                          Battery Power
                          Hiadaptive
                          Unknown Power
                          Hiadaptive

                          pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                          CPU: Intel N100
                          NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                          RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                          Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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                            Antibiotic @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 last pid: 68860; load averages: 1.30, 1.05, 0.95 up 0+02:02:23 16:41:57
                            387 threads: 5 running, 358 sleeping, 24 waiting
                            CPU 0: 13.8% user, 0.0% nice, 25.2% system, 4.3% interrupt, 56.7% idle
                            CPU 1: 19.7% user, 0.0% nice, 18.1% system, 9.1% interrupt, 53.1% idle
                            CPU 2: 23.6% user, 0.0% nice, 17.3% system, 5.9% interrupt, 53.1% idle
                            CPU 3: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 21.7% system, 9.4% interrupt, 53.5% idle
                            Mem: 513M Active, 1025M Inact, 2057M Wired, 56K Buf, 12G Free
                            ARC: 539M Total, 270M MFU, 248M MRU, 1661K Anon, 2880K Header, 15M Other
                            461M Compressed, 1156M Uncompressed, 2.51:1 Ratio
                            Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free

                            pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                            CPU: Intel N100
                            NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                            RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                            Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                            Brgds, Archi

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                              Antibiotic @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 Thermal Sensors
                              Intel Core* CPU on-die thermal sensor

                              pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                              CPU: Intel N100
                              NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                              RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                              Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                              Brgds, Archi

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                You have SpeedShift enabled?

                                Be good to see more of that top output so we know what's generating that CPU load.

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                                  Antibiotic @stephenw10
                                  last edited by stephenw10

                                  @stephenw10

                                  PID USERNAME    PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
                                     11 root        187 ki31     0B    64K CPU2     2 122:26  58.07% [idle{idle: cpu2}]
                                     11 root        187 ki31     0B    64K CPU1     1 122:25  57.91% [idle{idle: cpu1}]
                                     11 root        187 ki31     0B    64K RUN      3 122:21  57.13% [idle{idle: cpu3}]
                                     11 root        187 ki31     0B    64K CPU0     0 124:38  56.37% [idle{idle: cpu0}]
                                  69815 root         24    0   855M   469M select   3   0:57  17.04% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         24    0   855M   469M select   3   0:58  16.84% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         23    0   855M   469M select   3   0:50  15.64% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         23    0   855M   469M select   2   1:05  14.86% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         24    0   855M   469M select   2   1:05  14.11% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                     12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     3   0:22  10.66% [intr{swi1: netisr 1}]
                                  69815 root         23    0   855M   469M select   0   1:24   9.82% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         21    0   855M   469M select   0   1:32   7.52% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  56778 root         21    0   550M   390M bpf      1   0:43   7.41% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igc1 -i igc0 --dns-mode 0 --local-ne
                                  56778 root         21    0   550M   390M bpf      0   0:52   7.24% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igc1 -i igc0 --dns-mode 0 --local-ne
                                      0 root        -60    -     0B  1808K -        0   0:39   6.15% [kernel{if_io_tqg_0}]
                                     12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     0   0:28   6.06% [intr{swi1: netisr 0}]
                                      0 root        -60    -     0B  1808K RUN      1   0:34   6.03% [kernel{if_io_tqg_1}]
                                      0 root        -60    -     0B  1808K -        3   0:39   5.93% [kernel{if_io_tqg_3}]
                                     12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     2   0:42   5.76% [intr{swi1: netisr 2}]
                                      0 root        -64    -     0B  1808K -        0   0:22   5.58% [kernel{dummynet}]
                                     12 root        -60    -     0B   320K WAIT     1   0:33   5.44% [intr{swi1: netisr 3}]
                                      0 root        -60    -     0B  1808K -        2   0:49   4.18% [kernel{if_io_tqg_2}]
                                  69815 root         20    0   855M   469M select   0   1:23   2.37% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  69815 root         20    0   855M   469M uwait    3   0:45   0.24% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  56778 root         20    0   550M   390M nanslp   2   0:30   0.21% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igc1 -i igc0 --dns-mode 0 --local-ne
                                   6263 root         20    0  1411M   136M uwait    1   0:07   0.17% /usr/local/bin/crowdsec -c /usr/local/etc/crowdsec/config.yaml{crowdsec}
                                   6263 root         20    0  1411M   136M kqread   2   0:07   0.12% /usr/local/bin/crowdsec -c /usr/local/etc/crowdsec/config.yaml{crowdsec}
                                  56778 root         20    0   550M   390M uwait    3   0:00   0.12% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igc1 -i igc0 --dns-mode 0 --local-ne
                                  30798 unbound      20    0   355M   305M kqread   0   0:13   0.08% /usr/local/sbin/unbound -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf{unbound}
                                      2 root        -60    -     0B    64K WAIT     2   0:02   0.08% [clock{clock (2)}]
                                      8 root        -16    -     0B    16K -        3   0:02   0.08% [rand_harvestq]
                                      2 root        -60    -     0B    64K WAIT     3   0:01   0.07% [clock{clock (3)}]
                                  56712 root         20    0    36M    12M kqread   1   0:05   0.07% redis-server: /usr/local/bin/redis-server 127.0.0.1:6379 (redis-server){redis-server}
                                      2 root        -60    -     0B    64K WAIT     0   0:02   0.07% [clock{clock (0)}]
                                  37116 root         20    0    14M  4468K CPU1     1   0:01   0.07% top -HaSP
                                      2 root        -60    -     0B    64K WAIT     1   0:01   0.06% [clock{clock (1)}]
                                  69815 root         20    0   855M   469M nanslp   1   0:49   0.06% /usr/local/bin/suricata --netmap -D -c /usr/local/etc/suricata/suricata_12484_igc1/suricata.yaml --pidfile /var/run/suric
                                  56778 root         20    0   550M   390M uwait    0   0:00   0.05% /usr/local/bin/ntopng -d /var/db/ntopng -G /var/run/ntopng.pid -s -e -w 0 -W 3000 -i igc1 -i igc0 --dns-mode 0 --local-ne
                                  

                                  pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                                  CPU: Intel N100
                                  NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                                  RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                                  Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                                  Brgds, Archi

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                                    Antibiotic @stephenw10
                                    last edited by

                                    @stephenw10 Yes Speed Shift enabled

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                                    CPU: Intel N100
                                    NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                                    RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                                    Disk: 128 GB NVMe
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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Ok so all Suricata load basically. If you disable it as a test without any other changes do you get full bandwidth?

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                                        Antibiotic @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        @stephenw10 Yes, exactly, if suricata disabled speed test show as should be about 95% of max capacity as set in traffic shaping limiters!

                                        pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                                        CPU: Intel N100
                                        NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                                        RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                                        Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                                        Brgds, Archi

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Hmm. Do you see the same in legacy and in-line mode?

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                                            Antibiotic @stephenw10
                                            last edited by

                                            @stephenw10 Use in-line mode, don't use legacy mode. Do you want to test in legacy mode?

                                            pfSense plus 24.11 on Topton mini PC
                                            CPU: Intel N100
                                            NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                                            RAM : 16 GB DDR5
                                            Disk: 128 GB NVMe
                                            Brgds, Archi

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