ALIX APU.2C4 Board and 1GBit Internet connection

No, Mediacom Cable. DHCP WAN.

Ah ok that was not clear to me, thanks.

pfBasic

@fthomasr:

@pfBasic:

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Ok first of all I posted that just for information.

But…... Same generation Atom

Yeah, just saying you could probably get gigabit with a SFF modern n series Celeron.

steve_v

@VAMike:

That hardware can do a gigabit just fine under linux. It's not a hardware problem, it's a system problem.

It sure is.

I've been testing pfSense throughput vs some GNU/Linux router distros, and the results are a little shocking, TBH.

Even without any routing (LAN interface to LAN client), I get ~600-650 Mbit out of pfSense, apparently CPU bound (one core at 100%).

I haven't found a GNU/Linux router that can't saturate the gigabit link (~950Mbit) in the same situation. With minimal CPU use (<15%).

I love the features of pfSense, but that's one hell of a performance tax we're paying for them :(

I've been testing pfSense throughput vs some GNU/Linux router distros, and the results are a little shocking, TBH.

Please try out iPerf from client to server and set it up to use 8 streams or more, then you will perhaps seeing other results
and you may get other numbers, because the LAN line will be saturated.

I love the features of pfSense, but that's one hell of a performance tax we're paying for them :(

As above told, the hardware requirements for reaching 1 GBit/s at the WAN are given by the pfSense team shown
under the link named some posts above by me, so there will be not really a need to complain about, because the
APU is only serving ~1.0GHz at the CPU and > 2.0GHz are needed. For sure in the near future this can be really
differ, by using multi-core CPU for the igb(4) driver, the entire pfSense system it self and perhaps more or less
one of the forwarding (netmap-fwd, try-fwd, fast-fwd) methods that can change this.