Enabling hardware offload ?

[hushcoden]

Since I don't use IDS/IPS, would I gain any boost performance by enabling the hardware offload settings on my APU2E4?

Tia.

[dave]

I've read Hardware LRO can actually introduce latency due to the way packets are aggregated, so if you use any latency sensitive apps you might want to leave it disabled.

This guide from Teklager covers the useful stuff for opnsense on an APU:  https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/opnsense-performance-optimization/

I did email them a while ago asking if it was up-to-date.  They said they'd check.
Interestingly they updated the pfsense guide, but left the opnsense guide untouched, so I'm guesing it's all still applicable despite a number of major releases.

The Intel nic's used in the APU series do support all these features though, so no harm in testing them.

opnsense docs:  https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/interfaces_settings.html