Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-06 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > Second, none of these were offload-related. > > Third, the config file doesn't overwrite loader.conf.local. > I didn't say they were related; I just said it would be a nice thing if the hardware specific settings were publicly stated on the p

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-06 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Mar 6, 2015, at 4:00 AM, Vick Khera wrote: > > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >> > Ah, so I should have asked _before_ ordering the NICs? $;-) >> >> There are many of you, and few of us. > > As a Netgate and pfSense customer, I think it would help *everyone* if

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-05, at 11:46 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: > The description of what's enabled/disabled got confused from Jim's > earlier post I think. LRO and TSO are both disabled by default, > hardware checksum offloading is enabled by default. Just for the record, Jim's message ended with: --- It’s

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:26 PM, DV wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: >> >> In case it’s not clear by now, these settings are all *disabled* by >> default in pfSense. > > I am pretty sure that I haven't changed these settings in my various > production pfsense devices

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread DV
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: > In case it's not clear by now, these settings are all *disabled* by > default in pfSense. I am pretty sure that I haven't changed these settings in my various production pfsense devices, but they all have "Disable hardware checksum offload

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > Ah, so I should have asked _before_ ordering the NICs? $;-) > > There are many of you, and few of us. > As a Netgate and pfSense customer, I think it would help *everyone* if you just posted the "special" settings for the devices you sell.

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Bryan D. wrote: > > On 2015-Mar-04, at 2:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: >> >> You’re aware that I work for Netgate, right? > > Well ... yes, but that item was in response to the posting by > comp...@hotrodpc.com. > > More importantly, when I see "Jim Thompson" I im

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-04, at 2:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > >> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Bryan D. wrote: >> >> On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc wrote: >> >>> For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are >>> immediately apparent. >> >> I guess my approach w.r.t. a mailing li

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Bryan D. wrote: > > On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc wrote: > >> For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are >> immediately apparent. > > I guess my approach w.r.t. a mailing list has always been that I'd like to > help others avoid sp

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jens Tautenhahn
Am 04.03.2015 um 16:17 schrieb Jim Thompson: > LRO works by aggregating multiple incoming packets from a single > stream into a larger buffer before they are passed higher up the > networking stack, thus reducing the number of packets that have to be > processed. > > LRO should not be used on mach

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc wrote: > For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are > immediately apparent. I guess my approach w.r.t. a mailing list has always been that I'd like to help others avoid spending time learning something I can help with. As such (para

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Bryan D. wrote: > > Today, having received a pair of SuperMicro AOC-SG-i2 NICs from the pfSense > store, I asked about the applicable pfSense "offloading" settings (via the > pfSense contact form). > > > Receiving an oblique (non-)response, I re-sent a query th

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread compdoc
> With my current systems, segmentation and large receive offloads are >disabled. I don't remember what the default was (and it's not stated >on the configurator page) [...] For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are immediately apparent. ___

[pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-03 Thread Bryan D.
Today, having received a pair of SuperMicro AOC-SG-i2 NICs from the pfSense store, I asked about the applicable pfSense "offloading" settings (via the pfSense contact form). Receiving an oblique (non-)response, I re-sent a query that included the following text: --- [...] specifically, what sh