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meyergru: ever hear back from MinisForum? I'm also having issues with these NICs. Dropped in an Intel X550-T2 in the mean time.

Yes. Torrents usually cause the symptom. I assume it's due to the thousands of connections that get opened.
Yes. If the connection symptoms start I can close the BT clients and it goes away.


Agreed. My MBUF and State Table percentages are very low single digit.


My network is flat right now. The firewall is just internal/external. No inter-VLAN routing.
Yes. Management on the OPNsense UI isn't impacted.
Gb Fiber. Symmetrical.


And now an update. I think it's a NIC chipset issue. I was going nuts and was looking at what worked on my last HW setup and this one. Both Intel CPUs and motherboard chipsets. Both with Intel NICs...but the old box had a X550-T2 card in it and this MS-01 uses the i226 2.5Gb chipset for the copper ports. I took the X550 out of the old box and put it in the MS-01 and moved my LAN/WAN connections.


It's been running just fine for.....58...hours now. Zero issues. And grabbed a bunch of stuff over BitTorrent to crank the connections. So...I assume it's a chipset or driver issue but plenty of people use i226 NICs. I see you do in your sig.


Who do I report this to for a bug report? OPNsense devs or the driver dev? Ugh.

More testing. If I run the torrent clients and it slows down I can kill the clients to fix it. I just went from not being able to run speedtest to it running fine again right after killing the clients.

So some table or memory or something appears to be filling up when it shouldn't.

This is driving me absolutely crazy. I had an install of OPNsense on an old PC for a while but it started having HW issues. Storage was going bad. I figured I'd rebuild on a new system so went way overkill with Minisforum MS-01. Put in 32GB of RAM and a 1TB NVMe. Which should mean this isn't some hardware constraint. And the old system was fine with less.

New install of 24.1.7. Have ZenArmor in Bypass for testing. No IDS enabled. Both LAN and WAN are Intel i226 2.5Gb NICs. The system runs great for a couple of hours but then begins to have trouble with new connections. For example, speedtest.net. After a while speedtest.net tests get real flakey. They might work for the download test...but not the upload. They'll fail partway through a test. After a while the test can't establish new connections to run at all. Other apps start slowing down on connections. Eventually they either retry long enough or they time out. Downloads from Xbox Game Pass, for example.

It appears like the state table is filling up. If I load up two torrent clients with a lot of things connected this symptom pops up much faster than if I don't. My state table is under 1% utilization. MBUF is at 1%. CPU is in single digits all day.

Thoughts?

Running 24.1.7. System has been fine until a couple of days ago. I've rebooted the system. Restarted services. I can't find anything in the system or configd logs that looks out of place.

I pretty much can't do anything in the UI. If I go to plugins it shows all my plugins in red and marks them missing. My Packages list says "No packages were found on your system. Please call for help.". If I go to change a plugin or service it'll usually timeout when saving a change. It takes 10 to 30 seconds to bring up settings for many things.

If I go to System - Firmware I can never get it to populate Status. Doing an Update just spins...it never finishes.

Any pointers to track this down? To me it seems like a failing drive but nothing in the logs. I have a RAID1 ZFS pair of NVMe drives.