Sanity check for N100 / i226 on a 2000 / 2000 line

[BrandyWine]

Stop OPNsense FW services and run your windows test through the router, what speed does it get.

I think for anything above 1Gb you need to tune the device as a fast router. Anything beyond just router and it will slow things down.

You can also test through the fw from a host on port A to a host on port B. A ping test with various sizes, ping -s or ping -l, and record the response time, from there it's just math (use AI bot). You can also load up bandwidth by sending large sums of UDP from A to B.

[nero355]

Additional CPU load.

I think that's not it to be honest...

I have also never seen such claims/issues when people use to build their DIY NAS based on FreeBSD with ZFS before there was OpenZFS for Linux for example.
And those sometimes even had 10 Gbps NICs onboard !! :)

[pfry]

I think that's not it to be honest...[...]

Heh. I agree. But it should be eliminated as a possibility.

[Ozymandias]

After dabbling with Alpine and going back into the bios I realised that PCIe 1 and 2 were set to Gen1 (I did think I had changed them to Auto a number of years ago). After amending to both to Auto I'm now getting 2.10 Gbits/sec to a public server from OPNsense, 2.12 Gbits/sec from Win11, and 2.35 Gbits/sec OPNsense to Unraid. Thanks for all the input.

[nero355]

After dabbling with Alpine and going back into the bios I realised that PCIe 1 and 2 were set to Gen1 (I did think I had changed them to Auto a number of years ago). After amending to both to Auto I'm now getting 2.10 Gbits/sec to a public server from OPNsense, 2.12 Gbits/sec from Win11, and 2.35 Gbits/sec OPNsense to Unraid. Thanks for all the input.

LOL! I totally forgot that part! NICE! :)

[pfry]

I didn't have PCI-e clock on my bingo card. I probably should have, as I have an AMD B650 system where its e810 card will not run at 16Gt/s (v4) in a CPU slot, but will in the chipset slot (the two available slots are both x4). So I habitually look at pciconf when I put together FreeBSD/OPNsense systems.

[nero355]

I have an AMD B650 system

IMO those things should not exist in the first place :

The Mainstream CPUs and Chipsets are soo crippled compared to HEDT systems that there should only be the X models (for AMD) and Z models (for Intel) and nothing else, but sadly the world does not agree with me :'(

I know things have shifted slightly in the meantime, but the sweetness of something like my good old i7 3930K and the AsRock X79 Extreme11 was just too good to not to buy at the time! ^_^