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General Discussion / Re: Slow download speed with virtio nics

« on: February 15, 2016, 10:19:19 am »

Which pfSense version did you use? pfSense 2.2 is on FreeBSD 10.1, and we've seen a lot of VM regressions with FreeBSD 10.2 that we switched to with OPNsense 16.1.

The latest stable: 2.2.6-RELEASE (amd64) - FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p25

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General Discussion / Re: Slow download speed with virtio nics

« on: February 10, 2016, 08:57:29 am »

Which version of OPNsense did you try? 16.1.x or 15.7.x?
The first has a higher kernel version. Might be worth giving it a try with a 15.7.x build.

It was 16.1.x fully updated.

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General Discussion / Re: Slow download speed with virtio nics

« on: February 09, 2016, 10:42:09 pm »

I've installed a pfSense VM with the same setup (all hardware acceleration disabled) and I can reach the maximum bandwidth. So something is not working properly in OPNsense on KVM+virtio drivers.

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General Discussion / Re: How to install ports?

« on: February 09, 2016, 10:08:28 am »

I'm just exploring the firewall capabilities. Anyway, I've found that enabling the FreeBSD repository in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf makes the package available.

My original idea was to run OPNsense virtualized in KVM, but I was getting a strange network performance. I think I'll give KVM a chance again.

Thanks.

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General Discussion / [SOLVED] How to install ports?

« on: February 09, 2016, 09:37:07 am »

Hi, I'd like to install some ports, but I can't find the command portmaster nor I can use pkg to install it.
I'm new to FreeBSD, so I'm a bit lost.

My intention is to install grub2-bhyve and try to run a VM.

Any advice is welcome.
Thanks.

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General Discussion / Slow download speed with virtio nics

« on: February 07, 2016, 11:52:00 am »

Hi,

I've a virtualized (KVM) OPNSense router connected to a 300/300 Mbps wan line. The virtio nics are connected to the Linux bridge of the hypervisor.

While I can easily reach the 300Mbps of upload speed, I can't get over 3 Mbps downloading.

I've disabled the hardware checksum offload and tried other things, but I can't get more download speed.

Any advice?
Thank you.