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Hardware and Performance / Re: [SOLVED] What NICs are good for 1Gbps symetric PPPoE on a virtualized OPNSense
« on: July 23, 2024, 01:24:44 am »
My usb dongle now works just fine connected to the ISP's router.
It turns out that if you do USB passthrogh to a VM there's some kind of issue that causes packet loss when it comes to ethernet dongles (or at the very least my TP-LINK UE330).
A few days later after making this post I thought "Why not just pass through the entire PCI-E USB controller" and so I did and all the issues disappeared, I've been monitoring the stability of the connection and it's rock solid! Even better than it's ever been!
All it took to resolve the issue is doing PCI-E passthrough to the OPNSense VM instead of just the specific USB port.
Of course this solution only good for me because I don't have a need to plug anything into the USBs of the server's motherboard.
Because of this I will still be looking into a good ethernet adapter.
Thank you all for the info and replies it's very useful!
Sorry I took a while to answer I've been busy plus I wanted to make sure at least a week had gone by before I confirmed this solution to ya'll so if anyone else tries it they know how I solved it and are not lead astray!
Angain thank ya'll!
It turns out that if you do USB passthrogh to a VM there's some kind of issue that causes packet loss when it comes to ethernet dongles (or at the very least my TP-LINK UE330).
A few days later after making this post I thought "Why not just pass through the entire PCI-E USB controller" and so I did and all the issues disappeared, I've been monitoring the stability of the connection and it's rock solid! Even better than it's ever been!
All it took to resolve the issue is doing PCI-E passthrough to the OPNSense VM instead of just the specific USB port.
Of course this solution only good for me because I don't have a need to plug anything into the USBs of the server's motherboard.
Because of this I will still be looking into a good ethernet adapter.
Thank you all for the info and replies it's very useful!
Sorry I took a while to answer I've been busy plus I wanted to make sure at least a week had gone by before I confirmed this solution to ya'll so if anyone else tries it they know how I solved it and are not lead astray!
Angain thank ya'll!