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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: jacknife on January 21, 2026, 07:49:21 PM

Title: Multi Threaded PPPOE For Multi Gigabit Speeds.
Post by: jacknife on January 21, 2026, 07:49:21 PM
Hello I know about the ways to get PPPOE multi gig speeds with a VM of OPNsense, but I do not want that extra layer.

Is there a way I can do a feature request, or donate or something to help get this feature?

Absolutely love OPNsense, have a ton of servers relying on it.
Title: Re: Multi Threaded PPPOE For Multi Gigabit Speeds.
Post by: nero355 on January 23, 2026, 04:55:20 PM
It's something that needs fixing in FreeBSD in order to be multi-threaded in OPNsense so head over there and try to find the right mailing list or GitHUB webpage connected to it :)

Please also note that these two things are different :
- Multi-threading support.
- Multiple CPU/Cores support.

All software is multi-threaded in general, but in order to benefit from the processing power of multiple CPU's or Cores some software needs additional development ;)

And in this case it's the lack of 'Multiple CPU/Core support' that limits the PPPoE speeds in FreeBSD/OPNsense compared to Linux based distros.