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    CPU proformance on 1gb fiber

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      Shiftenterprises
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      Hello all  new guy here. Been playing with pfsense for years but never put it in production.

      Here's my setup.
      Core2duo 6320
      4gb ram
      1 PCI express 1gig fiber card
      1 onboard gig nic

      Running on the latest stable release, would I have any issues if I was pushing 2 gb in total bandwidth? Also I would only be using pfsense to route a /24 from upstream to smaller /28 or smaller vlans. No dhcp, maybe 1-2 VPN users with very min use

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        Harvy66
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        CPU seems fine, biggest issue is what kind of NICs you have. Intel NICs tend to be very good, there are better brands, but they cost a lot more.

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          Shiftenterprises
          last edited by

          Are you asking about the fiber card or the onboard NIC?

          Its and older ECS elite board that i think has a realtek chip in it.

          the fiber card is a addon brand open sfp fiber card.

          I just want to make sure that we can live on this for a while till we upgrade to 10gb uplink

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            Harvy66
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            RealTek is hit and miss. Some work "ok", some crap out. I saw someone showing their RealTek trying to do something like 80k interrupts per second. Pretty much killed the system. Intel seems to work really well, but there are a few other brands that are even better from what I hear, but they're too expensive for me.

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              Shiftenterprises
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              Well I installed the OS today, and came up with this realtek chip 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G

              See my post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93797.0 At first i thought something was maybe bad drivers.

              Anywho after installing i noticed i had 3% cpu idle with NO traffic at all… makes me wonder if it will handle a full gig

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