Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-06 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Jim Thompson j...@netgate.com 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

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-05, at 11:46 AM, Chris Buechler c...@pfsense.com 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

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Jim Thompson j...@netgate.com 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

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Thompson
On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:54 AM, Bryan D. pfse...@derman.com 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

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com 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

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 machines

Re: [pfSense] NIC Offloading Setting Questions

2015-03-04 Thread Bryan D.
On 2015-Mar-04, at 2:08 PM, Jim Thompson j...@netgate.com wrote: On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Bryan D. pfse...@derman.com wrote: On 2015-Mar-04, at 6:20 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: For me, what happens after enabling or disabling those settings are immediately apparent. I