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      SteveITS Galactic Empire @girBot 0
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      Interfaces->LAN has a "Speed and Duplex" dropdown, at least on the one I looked at. My thought was to set down the 10 Gbit as a test just because that speed is less common? That's just a vague guess though. Long ago I ran into that the other way, where a NIC wouldn't work well at 100 Mbit because (I assume) no one was testing the driver at that speed (in Windows, IIRC).

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        kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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        did you disable Hardware Checksum Offloading , Hardware TCP Segmentation Offloading, Hardware Large Receive Offloading ? -> System / Advanced / Networking
        also there is an official update for realtek driver

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          girBot 0 @SteveITS
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          @teamits said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

          Interfaces->LAN has a "Speed and Duplex" dropdown, at least on the one I looked at. My thought was to set down the 10 Gbit as a test just because that speed is less common? That's just a vague guess though. Long ago I ran into that the other way, where a NIC wouldn't work well at 100 Mbit because (I assume) no one was testing the driver at that speed (in Windows, IIRC).

          Yeah I have the speed and duplex in LAN as well. Unfortunately... well fortunately my LAN side is fine.
          No speed settings in WAN though.

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            girBot 0 @kiokoman
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            @kiokoman said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

            @girbot-0
            did you disable Hardware Checksum Offloading , Hardware TCP Segmentation Offloading, Hardware Large Receive Offloading ? -> System / Advanced / Networking
            also there is an official update for realtek driver

            Just tried that on your suggestion. Not sure if I need to reboot the router? but i did a couple speed tests. Slightly worse now.

            Testing download speed................................................................................
            Download: 27.81 Mbit/s
            Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
            Upload: 83.20 Mbit/s

            I'd prefer to use the onboard NIC (the realtek one). The issue I mentioned with that was only last week though. Would I need to install anything separate to "fix" it? The reason I say that is cuz I just did a "lspci" and pfSense isnt even showing the pcie 1gbs nic... which is odd.

            pfSense sees it as interface "ue0" but thats not showing up in the devices...

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              kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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              disable all that stuff, from console:

              pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-v196.04_2.txz
              echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
              

              reboot

              check the boot logs for:

              re0: version:1.96.04
              

              also you should do a speed test from a pc on your lan, not from pfsense itself
              pfsense is optimized as a router, not as a client

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                girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                @kiokoman

                Not sure if im doing this wrong.. the pkg add command gave a mismatch error due to version. I said yes and it seemed to proceed.
                34bd2aa5-372b-45b4-9d34-1baa6ca37805-image.png

                But I don't see anything in the log regarding a version?

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                  kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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                  you forgot

                  echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
                  

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                    girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                    @kiokoman said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

                    @girbot-0

                    also you should do a speed test from a pc on your lan, not from pfsense itself
                    pfsense is optimized as a router, not as a client

                    I've done it from both.
                    I just wanted to confirm it wasn't the switch causing the slow down initially, which comes after pfSense.

                    This is from my workstation which is wired:

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                      girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                      @kiokoman said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

                      @girbot-0
                      you forgot

                      echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
                      

                      ahh.. well anyway

                      Ignore the mismatch and continue? [y/N]: y
                      the most recent version of realtek-re-kmod-v196.04_2 is already installed

                      so I guess that confirms it.

                      let me switch WAN over to that interface and see what happens

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                        girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                        @kiokoman

                        Looks like same issue I had last week.

                        Says its up (its a static WAN ip) but thinks gateway is down. I tried last week to disable gateway monitoring. Same issue though. Its at least recognizing the speed of that realtek card now for WAN.

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                        • kiokomanK
                          kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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                          i don''t understant
                          do you have if_re_load="YES" inside /boot/loader.conf.local ?
                          do you have re0: version:1.96.04 on the boot logs now?
                          if not, you are not loading the driver at boot

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                            girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                            @kiokoman said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

                            /boot/loader.conf.local

                            sry sry.. not trying to confuse.

                            Still nothing in the log mentioning a version :(

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                              girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                              @kiokoman

                              I added this second line as well just to see if it would help since it mentioned to add it during the install of the driver

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                              didnt seem to help though.

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                                kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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                                ok it's not loading for me also

                                KLD if_re.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
                                

                                let me check..

                                https://drive.google.com/file/d/15lsDnnCz0C9rD9qIsmT0JeniFsSxgxTR/view
                                this one should load

                                pkg delete realtek-re-kmod
                                

                                copy the if_re.ko inside /boot/modules
                                reboot
                                and check for
                                re0: version:1.96.04

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                                  girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                                  @kiokoman

                                  Some success....
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                                  but for some reason when using THIS NIC:

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                                  Using the other one just works..

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                                    kiokoman LAYER 8 @girBot 0
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                                    ok, does internet works even if it say gateway offline?
                                    speedtest?

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                                      girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                                      @kiokoman said in 1Gbps from Modem to PC, capped at 30-40Mbps through pfSense?:

                                      @girbot-0
                                      ok, does internet works even if it say gateway offline?
                                      speedtest?

                                      sorry, shoulda been clearer. no inet. :(
                                      it actually cant reach the GW... see below.

                                      I'll swap the cable back and the interface back to the pcie card, just as a sanity check and change no settings. to see if that comes up still.

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                                        girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                                        @kiokoman

                                        Yah.
                                        Switched back to the other pcie card (which pfsense doesnt seem to know anything about other than ue0). and it works. No changes to config

                                        but speed is crap again.

                                        Testing download speed................................................................................
                                        Download: 32.88 Mbit/s
                                        Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
                                        Upload: 120.32 Mbit/s

                                        I don't understand why switching to the Realtek NIC would cause this.

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                                          girBot 0 @kiokoman
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                                          @kiokoman

                                          Happy to report that it IS now working on the realtek card!

                                          The only change I made was here where it now shows the Speed and Duplex for this card. (it didnt for the other one.). It was set to auto which wasn't working. Setting it to 1000baseT Full made it magically work.

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                                          Speedtest results from my machine and the router are same:

                                          Testing download speed................................................................................
                                          Download: 539.01 Mbit/s
                                          Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
                                          Upload: 88.97 Mbit/s

                                          Not the 890 Mbs i get when my machine is wired direct to the modem. But definitely better than 45.
                                          Hopefully tweaking some settings can help boost that a bit more.

                                          Thanks so much for all your help man. Really appreciate the time you spent.

                                          To recap for anyone else that has this issue:

                                          • Download the if_re.ko file and put it into /boot/modules on pfSense, a link above is there. Perhaps the pkg add command works as well but didnt for me
                                          • Added the following lines to /boot/loader.conf.local (tho the last three I added from another thread. Not sure what they do, will test without)
                                            I did this through SSH, but I think you can also do it in Diag > Edit file from the webgui

                                          if_re_load="YES"
                                          if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
                                          hw.re.msi_disable=1
                                          hw.pci.enable_msix=0
                                          hw.pci.enable_msi=0

                                          • Reboot
                                          • Webgui: interfaces > WAN re0 > hard set speed to 1000baseT > Save

                                          Started working after that.

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                                            girBot 0 @girBot 0
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                                            just adding that I set the MTU for the realtek onboard NIC to 1428 and im consitently getting better speed tests.

                                            Testing download speed................................................................................
                                            Download: 707.96 Mbit/s
                                            Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
                                            Upload: 120.81 Mbit/s

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