Try a different NIC rather than what appears to be an onboard Realtek NIC. Realteks are pretty craptacular - it's my understanding that they basically offload everything to the OS which means it raises an interrupt whenever a butterfly sneezes, hence the high CPU usage under load.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 7:54 AM Brodey Dover <dover...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's a fairly hefty system for a router. > > After updates speeds are up to 750down/1200up. When testing the download > speed, all cores are stuck ~33%. When testing the upload speed, one core > rockets to 100% and the others are around 20%. > > Thank you, > Brodey > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 15:25, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: >> >> On 2024-11-24, Brodey Dover <dover...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > --000000000000b205f70627ac962e >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> > >> > Hello all! >> > >> > I have an OpenBSD 7.2 router that I have PPPoE passthrough configured to my >> > ISP's Fibre modem on its 10G switch. I have a Moker 2.5G switch that is >> > connected to that and my router has an Intel X550-T2 NIC. Everything >> > negotiates just fine. I was using ADMZ previously but there is a technical >> > issue (I think with routes)...so I'm back to trying out PPPoE passthrough. >> > >> > I'm currently getting 400-600Mbps down and about 200Mbps higher on the >> > upload. This is on a symmetrical 3Gbps connection. >> > >> > Should I upgrade the router and hope for the best? >> >> dmesg might give some idea about what sort of speed would be reasonable >> to expect from the hardware. >> >> -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
