I’m using an Intel X550-T2 card, very expensive. 

The Realtek is unused.

Brodey 
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> On Nov 24, 2024, at 23:51, Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
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