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      ravadon95
      last edited by ravadon95

      Hello, i have a pfsense installed in a hyper v vm on dell r7910 workstation with Windows server 2019 with 1000mbit internet connection

      I have 4 external virtual switches for pfsense with "SR-IOV" enabled for all of them and "Allow management operating system..." on LAN1 Virtual switch, See LAN1 below

      In pfense i have 2x WAN interfaces, WAN1 is connected and WAN2 is kinda disabled
      And 2 LAN interfaces, LAN2 is connected to another pfsense(doing some stuff but included it just incase)

      So im mainly using WAN1 and LAN1, the speed is as expected when tested on the host, but when i connect the port(LAN1 External Switch) on my workstation to a physical computer and do the speed test i get about 1mbit upload speed, download is as expected

      Im using pfsense version 2.6, DHCPv6 enabled on WAN1

      What i tried:

      Checked Disable hardware checksum offload

      Unchecked Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload

      Unchecked Disable hardware large receive offload

      Disabled Large Send Offload V2 both for ipv4 and 6 on the nic thats connected to LAN1 External switch on the workstation

      Any ideas what could be causing it? thanks

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        Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @ravadon95
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        @ravadon95 pfSense CE is borked on hyper-V since 2.6 came out, have a look here.

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          ravadon95 @Bob.Dig
          last edited by

          @bob-dig The post from RMH 0 fixed it for me, had to disable RSC, Thanks for sharing

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            raqib
            last edited by

            solution

            pfsense 2.6.0 there is issue speed will be reduced so need to disable the RSC

            To check the Interface is enable or Disable
            Get-VMSwitch -Name <vSwitchName> | Select-Object RSC
            Get-VMSwitch -Name LAN2 | Select-Object RSC

            To Disable Please
            Set-VMSwitch -Name vSwitchName -EnableSoftwareRsc $false
            Set-VMSwitch -Name LAN2 -EnableSoftwareRsc $false

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              Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @raqib
              last edited by Bob.Dig

              @raqib But it is not helping in every case, I had problems on Server 2022 and this only helped some of the time.

              What "helped" me all of the time was using two separate, external vSwitches, one only for pfSense and one for all the other VMs. And that meant there had to be a physical switch in place to connect those two vSwitches. Thankfully it is working in the latest Plus-version.

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