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Aside: A Lenovo card let you install an Intel NVM image? (Lenovo usually supplies their own via Intel OEM tools.)

I followed https://gist.github.com/mietzen/736583d37a1d370273c0775aaaa57aa5 which allows you to flash any available firmware.

I also followed the Multi-Gigabit guide you linked.... but then I remembered I was testing from a gigabit host.  When I tested from a 10G host, I was able to hit 1441/349 from the waveform buffer bloat test.

All of the other "normal" speed tests report around 400 down, and slowly climb to that number.  Is the that indicative of another setting I need to modify?  I don't think I've seen higher than 8% CPU usage.

I flashed the intel x710 Lenovo card with the latest intel driver and I was able to hit 909mbps down and 400mbps up.  A lot better but not quite there yet. I also forgot to mention I already installed the realtek plugin.

I believe I set up RSS correctly.  Although I'm not sure how many bits to set with the 6 core cpu. 

I'll have to look into setting the MTU tomorrow.  Any documentation for setting that optimally?

Tried swapping to the onboard nic and it's even slower.

iperf shows that I can hit 6gbps from a different x710 host to the opnsense x710. 

Another clue is the opnsense webui is pretty slow as well.

CPU usage rarely goes above 3% usage. 

Seems like it will always hit my 400mbps upload max speed, and is usually less than 100mpbs down

I've been fighting this setup a few days now.  I should be able to get 2000/400 from my ISP but the max speed I've seen so far is 400/400 (usually much slower).    Most of the settings are at their default.  First opnsense box.  I've tried using the onboard 1GB intel nic but the results were similar, I could try again though.

Specs:
Optiplex SFF 5060
i7-8700
8GB RAM
m.2 ssd
intel x710-da2 10G LAN
realtek rtl8125 2.5G WAN