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Bug #6921

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Poor speed with Chelsio T420-CR

Added by Rajil Saraswat over 7 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Not a Bug
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Hardware / Drivers
Target version:
-
Start date:
11/11/2016
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.3.2
Affected Architecture:

Description

I have a Chelsio T420-CR 10gbe NIC in a Supermicro A1SRi-2758f based pfsense router. I get poor speed (~1.2gbps) testing between the router and the desktop. The desktop has a Mellanox ConnectX-2 SFP+ card. The pfsense was setup with no customization with a WAN and a LAN (no packages installed).

The pfsense router was then wiped and replaced with FreeBSD-11. Testing again with the desktop, iperf3 this time showed ~9.5gbps speed as expected. Incidently, pfSense-2.4 snapshot also gives poor speed. I also booted the pfSense router in Arch Linux and again got ~9.5gbps speed.

It seems something is holding back T420-CR card in pfSense which is not an issue in FreeBSD-11.

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