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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
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        @stephenw10 Ok, thank's

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        NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
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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)?

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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
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              @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)

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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

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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

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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

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

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                        CPU: Intel N100
                        NIC: Intel i-226v 4 pcs
                        RAM : 16 GB DDR5
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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
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                            @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
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                              @stephenw10 Yes Speed Shift enabled

                              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

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

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

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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
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                                        Yes, test legacy mode. See if there is any change.

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                                          Antibiotic @stephenw10
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                                          @stephenw10 In legacy mode looks like speed as should be

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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
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                                            Hmm, so possibly some netmap issue. If you run sysctl dev.netmap.admode=1 it should prevent netmap running in emulated mode which is very slow. However that does mean it can only run in native mode so may break if that's not possible for some reason.

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