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    8200/6100 Intel x553 NIC and certain SFP+ modules

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      aholmes5 @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 Lots of In errors. No out errors and no collisions.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Interesting. Then check the stats in the sysctl to see what sort of errors they are: sysctl dev.ix.0

        The C3K NICs are limited in the information they can get from modules about the link state. That can mean they negotiate incorrectly or fail to link with some media types. XPON modules that that hide the real link and present to the NIC as something else so there are a few things there that could cause problems.

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          aholmes5 @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 SFP in 8200.txt SFP in switch.txt

          Here is what I have. I don't know how to interpret this. Lots of errors:
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.rec_len_errs: 20
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.remote_faults: 0
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.local_faults: 53
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.short_discards: 7
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.byte_errs: 1425
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.ill_errs: 873
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.crc_errs: 5468
          dev.ix.0.mac_stats.rx_errs: 6374

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Mmm, interesting no one type....

            Check netstat -m make sure there's no buffer exhaustion happening.

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              aholmes5 @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10
              58799/4456/63255 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
              49273/3559/52832/1000000 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
              3/2029 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
              0/1524/1524/524288 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
              0/0/0/524288 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
              0/0/0/84161 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
              113245K/14328K/127573K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
              0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
              0/0/0 requests for mbufs delayed (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
              0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters delayed (4k/9k/16k)
              0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
              0 sendfile syscalls
              0 sendfile syscalls completed without I/O request
              0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
              0 pages read by sendfile as part of a request
              0 pages were valid at time of a sendfile request
              0 pages were valid and substituted to bogus page
              0 pages were requested for read ahead by applications
              0 pages were read ahead by sendfile
              0 times sendfile encountered an already busy page
              0 requests for sfbufs denied
              0 requests for sfbufs delayed

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                lio1503
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                Hi @aholmes5

                I have the same issue. I connect my Fiber WAN on SFP+ 10G on netgate 6100 with a 10GTEK sfp+10G and my unifi switch on the second WAN on SFP+ 10G on netgate 6100 with DAC 10G cable but my download speed is reduce of 80% but my upload is fine.
                Do you found a solution ?

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Are you seeing errors on the interfaces?

                  Do you have any traffic shaping?

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                    lio1503 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10
                    I see some error on interfaces and no traffic shaping configured.

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                      lio1503
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                      Screenshot 2025-08-06 203441.png

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                      • stephenw10S Online
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        No errors shown there. So some on the WAN?

                        How are you testing the throughput?

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                          lio1503 @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10

                          I put the wrong image sorry

                          netgate1.png netgate2.png netgate3.png

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            Hmm, not really a significant number there. Nothing that would cause throttling to that extent.

                            What about the PPPoE parent interface? Which I assume is ix0?
                            Try: netstat -i and ifconfig -v ix0

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                              lio1503 @stephenw10
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                              Hi @stephenw10

                              Here the result of commands

                              Screenshot 2025-08-08 112744.png

                              Screenshot 2025-08-08 112955.png

                              Thanks

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Ok huge number of input errors on ix0. That's what you'd expect for bad downloads.

                                You have an XPON module in there I assume? Can you access that to get stats?

                                You can check the sysctl output for ix0 to see what type of errors those are: sysctl dev.ix.0

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