18.1 Network Performance (17.7.11-12 was fine)?

[funar]

Did you use /boot/loader.conf for these? Or were they really gone from /boot/loader.conf.local ? It shouldn't touch .local ever...


Cheers,
Franco

I added them to loader.conf.local manually so they would be safe from being overwritten by future updates.

When I installed v18.1 originally, I did a clean install... Mainly because the v17 install used 100gb of my storage for swap by default. So, loader.conf.local was empty.

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[franco]

Ah, makes sense....

dcol suggested this a bit ago and I will implement it soon so all the loader.conf stuff can reside in config.xml backup and restore as well:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/2083


Cheers,
Franco

[funar]

Ah, makes sense....

dcol suggested this a bit ago and I will implement it soon so all the loader.conf stuff can reside in config.xml backup and restore as well:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/2083


Cheers,
Franco

That would be awesome. I appreciate all you guys do. Opnsense is great.

Dell R610, 48gb RAM, 2x146gb SAS (RAID 1)

[jorgegmayorgas]

Hi
Just in case it helps Intel NIC owners, following what funar explained

I have a solution for my Broadcom-NIC'ed Dell R610. It was definitely a driver issue more than a NAT or anything else.  The hw.bce.* settings only apply to Broadcom, but there's probably similar options for the others who have also replied to this thread.

In /boot/loader.conf.local:

hw.bce.verbose=0
hw.bce.tso_enable=0
hw.bce.rx_pages=8
hw.bce.tx_pages=8
hw.pci.enable_msix=1
hw.pci.enable_msi=1
net.inet.tcp.tso=0
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=524288

I'm now getting full bandwidth in both directions via opnsense. After getting that sorted out, I enabled dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, IDS and upstream traffic shaping. No more issues.

I found that these values for an HP NC360T based on Intel 82571EB (em driver) makes network performance OK , unless for me

Here's my actual /boot/loader.conf.local :
hw.pci.enable_msix=1
hw.pci.enable_msi=1
hw.em.rxd=4096
hw.em.txd=4096
net.inet.tcp.tso=0
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=524288

Regards,
Jorge

[cnaslund]

Hi
Just in case it helps Intel NIC owners, following what funar explained

I have a solution for my Broadcom-NIC'ed Dell R610. It was definitely a driver issue more than a NAT or anything else.  The hw.bce.* settings only apply to Broadcom, but there's probably similar options for the others who have also replied to this thread.

In /boot/loader.conf.local:

hw.bce.verbose=0
hw.bce.tso_enable=0
hw.bce.rx_pages=8
hw.bce.tx_pages=8
hw.pci.enable_msix=1
hw.pci.enable_msi=1
net.inet.tcp.tso=0
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=524288

I'm now getting full bandwidth in both directions via opnsense. After getting that sorted out, I enabled dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, IDS and upstream traffic shaping. No more issues.

I found that these values for an HP NC360T based on Intel 82571EB (em driver) makes network performance OK , unless for me

Here's my actual /boot/loader.conf.local :
hw.pci.enable_msix=1
hw.pci.enable_msi=1
hw.em.rxd=4096
hw.em.txd=4096
net.inet.tcp.tso=0
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc=16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc=524288

Regards,
Jorge

I have a SuperMicro A1SAi C2758 MB with 4 x Intel i354 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's.  Can I use the above settings in the driver config or should I use something else?

[dcol]

the i354 uses igb drivers, not em or bce. So the em and bce references would have to change to igb.
Use the guide found here https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=6590.0 for igb