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pfSense throughput would probably seriously benefit from jumbo frames. Please support that!

Added by Louis B 30 days ago. Updated 26 days ago.

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Interfaces
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pfSense throughput would probably seriously benefit from jumbo frames. Please support that!

I described this in more detail in my thread Is pfSense handling jumbo frames correct !?

I assume pfSense could greatly benefit from bigger packages. Especially in case of link speeds above 1G. Since even the slightest package delay is strongly limiting the throughput. Assuming that the package delay is independent of package size. The overall delay of using jumbo frames for file transfer would probably something like a factor 5.
So I did start change my NAS-systems and some network settings top test that. And of course pfSense should support it as well. And there is the problem. In the actual GUI, I can reduce the MTU-size (default 1500), but I cannot raise the size, not above the size of the physical interface.

And see there the problem, there is no way to change the MTU-size of interfaces used in favor of VLAN's or LAGG's

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Updated by Jim Pingle 26 days ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

pfSense already supports Jumbo frames if they are supported by the hardware and drivers. If the hardware and drivers don't support them you'd get no performance benefits from them anyhow.

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