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Maybe just a quick question, but I am I only person who finds the 'legacy' ddns plugin way easier to use and way more flexible that the new ddclient based one?

I removed the old legacy plugin and am trying out the new ddclient based one and it doesn't seem to installing correctly. The plugin shows as installed, and I can hit the WebUI, but when I try setting up my Cloudflare DDNS, I see the follow error in the back-end logs:

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2022-07-29T11:52:14-06:00 Error configd.py [23cf2dbf-8331-4ff7-9fcf-f7c475999bc7] Script action stderr returned "b"pgrep: Cannot open pidfile `/var/run/ddclient.pid': No such file or directory""

Looking at the main dashboard in opnsense, it's shows as `running`, but it's not. For now I'm going to switch back to the 'legacy' client and an going to request that opnsense devs do not remove it anytime soon.

I'm running a HP t730 thin client, a 256GB nvme, 8gb RAM, and an Intel based 4 port NIC (StarTech.com ST4000SPEXI or a Silicom PE2G4I35L v1.3), and I am struggling with bandwidth issues. When I originally set this system up about 6 months ago I was getting the full 600+mbps that I am paying for through my cable provider using the PC with OPNSense installed. About a month ago I noticed a slow down in download performance and after testing I am now getting between 300mbps and 400mbps. I do my testing using the speedtest pkg on the device to isolate it from the LAN. Running speedtests from the browser gives me even worse results that often don't even break 100mbps.

When I hook up a laptop directly to the cable modem I get the full speed. I have switched back to my old Asus router and am getting the full speed (600+mkbps) throughput as well.

I've turned off IPD/IPS and other services I have installed. I've tried pinning MSS and MTU to 1500 on the WAN interface like a number of threads recommend and haven't seen a change. I was originally running the Silicom, but I had purchased it used off of ebay used, so I bought the StarTech.com card new just in case the used card was defective.

I watch top when running these tests nothing stands out, the cpu hardly seems bothered. I have also looked through both cli and UI netstat output and there's nothing that seems to stand out there either. No huge numbers of dropped packets or anything like that. Is there anything else I can try?