Impact of mixing PCIe 2.0 & 2.1 2-port Cu NICs in PCIe 3.0 motherboard Intel C600 Series with 2xXeon 8-Core CPU
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Hi pfSense Gurus!
We have pfSense installed on a old (born in 2014) server: PCIe 3.0 motherboard Intel C600 Series with 2xXeon 8-Core CPU with a 6 of PCIe v.3
4 of x8 slots (dedicated to CPU 1)
2 of x16 slots (dedicated to CPU 2)How impact mixing the 2-head NICs:
Intel
I350-AM2 Powerwille based - 1Gb/s - PCIe 2.1
ftp://ftp.kontron.com/Products/Accessories/EoL_Components/LAN_WLAN/DS_F5000-L004_Dual-LAN_D3035.pdf
Intel 82576EB Kawela based NICs - 1Gb/s - PCIe 2.0
https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-py-lan-adapter-d2735-2.pdfto overall network performance for delay/jitter sensitive applications like video/voice streaming?
Is that CPU loading increases because higher IRQs numbers from NICs, etc... ?
Tank You all for detailed answering!
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What CPUs are those? How much throughput?
But I would expect almost no difference just in the slot ordering. Are you seeing something that makes you think it might be critical?
Steve
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@stephenw10 said in Impact of mixing PCIe 2.0 & 2.1 2-port Cu NICs in PCIe 3.0 motherboard Intel C600 Series with 2xXeon 8-Core CPU:
What CPUs are those? How much throughput?
Xeon E5-2670 8C/16T 2.60GHz 20MB 8.00GT/s 1600MHz 115W
But I would expect almost no difference just in the slot ordering. Are you seeing something that makes you think it might be critical?
I prefer asking from pro before making mistakes and waist a time. Especially in most known (I hope) questions. ;)
I just make efforts to minimize all possible influence on a netflow.
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should not be an issue. that is massive overkill for pfsense. you can vm it and run a few other things on that (adguard home, etc)
