Hi,
I recently built a new machine to try out ipfire as alternative to pfsense. The machine is an i5 -12600h , 16gb ram and was used with no issues on pfsense. My ISP provides and 8GB/8GB connection. I had no issues getting 8gb/7gb on 10gb clietnts. Having setup ipfire with no qos or filtering etc I can only get around 5gb down and 4gb up on my 10gb clients.. The nic for the wan is an X540 which was what I used before.
Why is ipfire limting my bandwidth?
thank you
This could have a thousand reasons. We have plenty of IPFire setups out there that easily reach 10 GBit/s. We even have a few that have 100 GBit/s and I have one that even has 200 GBit/s. Basically it is not the software.
It will probably be some hardware limitation. Bus bandwidth, CPU (although that looks like a beefy one).
Nice.
Would you consider to share some of these configurations? Mainboard, CPU, RAM, adapters.
what type of RED 
https://www.ipfire.org/docs/installation/red
IP, dhcp - x550.
As I mentioned it worked fine under pfsense.. I fired up vyos which gives me full 8/8gb so it clearly isn’t my hardware.
What do mean by x550?
The network card Im using for the 10gb wan & lan interface, 10 gtek x550 -t2
@bbitsch
https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=x550
despite the Stammgast ...
@skyeci73
have you considered opnsense 
b.t.w. the x540/x550 mixup is not relevant here 
Yeap. I have used both pf and opn both have different issues…
I wanted to use a Linux based firewall etc. Provably stick with vyos as it works full speed
Sorry didnt understand the first bit but the card is
to sum your details up:
opn and pf sense working full speed
vyos works full speed
all at the very same hardware 
chances that there is a hardware limitiation:
chances that ipfire does not like your hardware:
