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alavaliant

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#3269035 7-Aug-2024 13:15

I've been getting 2000/2000 (2gig hyperfibre connection) in speed tests via opnsense on my R86S router hardware. So I don't see any reason why pfsense shouldn't be able to do full gig connection transfer speeds on real hardware.

Only limitation I know of that (was present historically at-least) for bsd based routers such as opnsense/pfsense, was the ppp daemon was single threaded. So it could cause the connection to hit on 100% cpu usage on one cpu core (limiting the transfer speed) if you were using pppoe rather than dhcp for the connection. I've not tested out pppoe after moving to opnsense so I don't know if that's still true or not.

MadEngineer

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#3270166 10-Aug-2024 09:49

net.isr.numthreads=X
net.isr.maxthreads=X
net.isr.dispatch=deferred

/boot/loader.conf.local

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jrdobbs

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#3270800 12-Aug-2024 11:07

alavaliant:

Only limitation I know of that (was present historically at-least) for bsd based routers such as opnsense/pfsense, was the ppp daemon was single threaded. So it could cause the connection to hit on 100% cpu usage on one cpu core (limiting the transfer speed) if you were using pppoe rather than dhcp for the connection. I've not tested out pppoe after moving to opnsense so I don't know if that's still true or not.

I think they might be using the mpd5 package now for ppp.

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jrdobbs

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#3270803 12-Aug-2024 11:15

MadEngineer: Would you try Mikrotik’s RouterOS?

One of the aims of my router project is that I would like to be in full control of the software I put on the machine. I do however have a desire to play about with Mikrotik gear at some point so might go down this path for my wifi needs.

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jrdobbs

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#3270809 12-Aug-2024 11:41

jrdobbs:

One option I do have is a Fujitsu Esprimo Q556 mini PC which I use for messing about with, specs here

https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop-models/Fujitsu-Esprimo-Q556/

Have tested power usage at idle on this machine and it sits there at about 8W which gets a tick from me. Using speedtest-cli it draws about 16W, again which isn't bad. One disadvantage is that it only has one network interface (no option to add more) so have ordered two 2.5Gb USB network adapters from AliExpress - these have got good reviews for use with Linux. Just waiting for them to arrive mid month and will test.

Built my initial router at the weekend using my Fujitsu mini PC using parts which ordered from AliExpress,

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=290137&page_no=25#3269946

Getting 935/515 consistently on speedtests so the two USB 2.5Gb dongles seem to be doing their job well. When doing those speedtests, the average load across the CPU cores/threads is approx 20% so not too bad for an Intel 6100T processor. The AX210 wifi card is only working as an AP on 2.4GHz but investigating possible hacks to get 5GHz too. I'm not that bothered with ultrafast wifi so if I can get 300-500Mbps then I will be happy.

I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.

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