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    curious 10 gigabit status

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      Shack
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      So I have an Intel 540-based 10 gigabit card with two ports, and one is the WAN going to a Google fiber box and the other is the LAN going to a TP-Link 10 gigabit switch. The WAN is ix0 and the LAN is ix1. The status for the WAN is "10Gbase-T <full-duplex>" while the LAN says "10Gbase-T <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>" so I'm wondering if that means anything in particular. Any guesses anyone?

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        luckman212 LAYER 8 @Shack
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        Just means Google Fiber's ONT doesn't enable flow control on its inside interface. They may be managing congestion some other way, not sure. I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as you're not seeing packet loss on the connection.

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Yup the flow control is negotiated on the connection so whilst it might be enabled on both interfaces in pfSense only the switch is allowing it.

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