# Internal network problem

**URL:** <https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363>\
**Category:** Network\
**Created:** [5 March 2022 14:32 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363 "2022-03-05T14:32:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [5 March 2022 14:32 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/1 "2022-03-05T14:32:59Z")

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Hello!

Sorry for the English, google translator did it. : D

There is a speed problem with the internal network.

The connection is 10g, but the speed is only 4-5g …

Debian server - ipfire

[root @ wrouter ~] # iperf3 -c 192.168.2.241  
Connecting to host 192.168.2.241, port 5201  
[5] local 192.168.2.1 port 36002 connected to 192.168.2.241 port 5201  
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd  
[5] 0.00-1.00 sec 435 MBytes 3.64 Gbits / sec 0 503 KBytes  
[5] 1.00-2.00 sec 552 MBytes 4.63 Gbits / sec 0 611 KBytes  
[5] 2.00-3.00 sec 542 MBytes 4.55 Gbits / sec 0 509 KBytes  
[5] 3.00-4.00 sec 549 MBytes 4.61 Gbits / sec 0 648 KBytes  
[5] 4.00-5.00 sec 562 MBytes 4.72 Gbits / sec 1,503 KBytes  
[5] 5.00-6.00 sec 568 MBytes 4.76 Gbits / sec 0 543 KBytes  
[5] 6.00-7.00 sec 572 MBytes 4.81 Gbits / sec 0 535 KBytes  
[5] 7.00-8.00 sec 570 MBytes 4.77 Gbits / sec 0 628 KBytes  
[5] 8.00-9.00 sec 568 MBytes 4.77 Gbits / sec 0 526 KBytes  
[5] 9.00-10.00 sec 569 MBytes 4.76 Gbits / sec 0 571 KBytes

* * *

[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr  
[5] 0.00-10.00 sec 5.36 GBytes 4.60 Gbits / sec 1 sender  
[5] 0.00-10.00 sec 5.36 GBytes 4.60 Gbits / sec receiver

the speed is acceptable as a server but not perfect

ipfire server - debian client

[root @ wrouter ~] # iperf3 -s

* * *

Server listening on 5201 (test # 1)

* * *

Accepted connection from 192.168.2.241, port 36042  
[5] local 192.168.2.1 port 5201 connected to 192.168.2.241 port 36044  
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate  
[5] 0.00-1.00 sec 779 MBytes 6.53 Gbits / sec  
[5] 1.00-2.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 9.42 Gbits / sec  
[5] 2.00-3.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 9.41 Gbits / sec  
[5] 3.00-4.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.40 Gbits / sec  
[5] 4.00-5.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 9.32 Gbits / sec  
[5] 5.00-6.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 9.41 Gbits / sec  
[5] 6.00-7.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 9.42 Gbits / sec  
[5] 7.00-8.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.40 Gbits / sec  
[5] 8.00-9.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.40 Gbits / sec  
[5] 9.00-10.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.40 Gbits / sec  
[5] 10.00-10.00 sec 636 KBytes 8.66 Gbits / sec

* * *

[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate  
[5] 0.00-10.00 sec 10.6 GBytes 9.11 Gbits / sec receiver

IPS is enabled, but only on the RED0 device.  
I made another machine with a clean ipfire installation and tested the network cards, cables, sfp + modules and the speeds were good there, they brought what was expected. The machine called wrouter, on the other hand, is slow.

Machine data:  
[root @ wrouter ~] # uname -a  
Linux wrouter.srv 5.15.6-ipfire # 1 SMP Thu Dec 23 00:55:02 GMT 2021 x86\_64 Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU / Linux

[https://fireinfo.ipfire.org/profile/5abcd62380db781461fcb0d15918c42fcf533c66](https://fireinfo.ipfire.org/profile/5abcd62380db781461fcb0d15918c42fcf533c66)

[root @ wrouter ~] # lspci | grep Ethernet  
01: 00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)  
01: 00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)  
01: 00.2 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)  
01: 00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)  
03: 00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 01)  
48: 00.0 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. cLOM8214 1 / 10GbE Controller (rev 54)  
48: 00.1 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. cLOM8214 1 / 10GbE Controller (rev 54)

[root @ wrouter ~] # ethtool green0  
Settings for green0:  
Supported ports: [TP ​​FIBER]  
Supported link modes: 10000baseT / Full  
Supported pause frame use: No  
Supports auto-negotiation: No  
Supported FEC modes: Not reported  
Advertised link modes: 10000baseT / Full  
Advertised pause frame use: No  
Advertised auto-negotiation: No  
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported  
Speed: 10000Mb / s  
Duplex: Full  
Auto-negotiation: off  
Port: FIBER  
PHYAD: 0  
Transceiver: internal  
Supports Wake-on: g  
Wake-on: g  
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

```
    Link detected: yes

```

[root @ wrouter ~] # ifconfig green0  
green0: flags = 4163 \<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, MULTICAST\> mtu 1500  
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0  
ether c4: 34: 6b: cc: c0: c8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)  
RX packets 59750684 bytes 86829590819 (80.8 GiB)  
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0  
TX packets 65483441 bytes 96707241490 (90.0 GiB)  
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0  
device interrupt 113

What should I do to look for the bug?

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**Author:** ![cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/cfusco/32/9213_2.png) [@cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/u/cfusco)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2022 12:15 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/2 "2022-03-07T12:15:18Z")

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> [@whaskes](#):
>
> IPS is enabled, but only on the RED0 device.

If you disable IPS and leave everything else untouched, does it go up to 1 Gbits/sec? I am thinking that IPS could increase the CPU load and introduce a bottleneck there, regardless if it is analyzing the traffic of the green network or not. Also, is [QoS](https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/services/qos) active?

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2022 12:28 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/3 "2022-03-07T12:28:35Z")

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> [@cfusco](#):
>
> If you disable IPS and leave everything else untouched, does it go up to 1 Gbits/sec? I am thinking that IPS could increase the CPU load and introduce a bottleneck there, regardless if it is analyzing the traffic of the green network or not. Also, is [QoS](https://wiki.ipfire.org/configuration/services/qos) active?

Qos is active, I have already tried to turn off both completely separately and together, but nothing has changed

How can I see what can slow down my internal network?

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**Author:** ![cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/cfusco/32/9213_2.png) [@cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/u/cfusco)\
**Post date:** [7 March 2022 12:35 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/4 "2022-03-07T12:35:31Z")

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> [@whaskes](#):
>
> How can I see what can slow down my internal network?

Can you try to measure the CPU activity for all cores when you max out the bandwidth? I still think that for some reason you have a CPU bottleneck. Is it possible that you switch off the two services but for some reason either processes is/are still using CPU cycles?

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [8 March 2022 14:03 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/5 "2022-03-08T14:03:15Z")

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i will test the system again this week and check it out.

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [12 March 2022 10:27 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/6 "2022-03-12T10:27:54Z")

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ipfire:

```auto
[root@wrouter ~]# iperf3 -c 192.168.2.241 -t 60
Connecting to host 192.168.2.241, port 5201
[5] local 192.168.2.1 port 55188 connected to 192.168.2.241 port 5201
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[5] 0.00-1.00 sec 662 MBytes 5.55 Gbits/sec 0 515 KBytes
[5] 1.00-2.00 sec 836 MBytes 7.02 Gbits/sec 0 568 KBytes
[5] 2.00-3.00 sec 918 MBytes 7.69 Gbits/sec 0 659 KBytes
[5] 3.00-4.00 sec 916 MBytes 7.69 Gbits/sec 0 574 KBytes
[5] 4.00-5.00 sec 924 MBytes 7.75 Gbits/sec 0 568 KBytes
[5] 5.00-6.00 sec 905 MBytes 7.59 Gbits/sec 0 600 KBytes
[5] 6.00-7.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec 0 574 KBytes
[5] 7.00-8.00 sec 904 MBytes 7.58 Gbits/sec 0 568 KBytes
[5] 8.00-9.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec 0 679 KBytes
[5] 9.00-10.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.61 Gbits/sec 0 537 KBytes
[5] 10.00-11.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec 0 602 KBytes
[5] 11.00-12.00 sec 722 MBytes 6.06 Gbits/sec 0 526 KBytes
[5] 12.00-13.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec 0 549 KBytes
[5] 13.00-14.00 sec 902 MBytes 7.58 Gbits/sec 0 478 KBytes
[5] 14.00-15.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec 0 475 KBytes
[5] 15.00-16.00 sec 909 MBytes 7.62 Gbits/sec 0 478 KBytes
[5] 16.00-17.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec 0 532 KBytes
[5] 17.00-18.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec 0 486 KBytes
[5] 18.00-19.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec 0 512 KBytes
[5] 19.00-20.00 sec 928 MBytes 7.78 Gbits/sec 0 526 KBytes
[5] 20.00-21.00 sec 945 MBytes 7.92 Gbits/sec 0 529 KBytes
[5] 21.00-22.00 sec 731 MBytes 6.14 Gbits/sec 0 464 KBytes
[5] 22.00-23.00 sec 892 MBytes 7.48 Gbits/sec 0 540 KBytes
[5] 23.00-24.00 sec 905 MBytes 7.59 Gbits/sec 0 515 KBytes
[5] 24.00-25.00 sec 890 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec 0 478 KBytes
[5] 25.00-26.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec 0 498 KBytes
[5] 26.00-27.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.48 Gbits/sec 0 495 KBytes
[5] 27.00-28.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec 0 515 KBytes
[5] 28.00-29.00 sec 889 MBytes 7.46 Gbits/sec 0 430 KBytes
[5] 29.00-30.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec 0 455 KBytes
[5] 30.00-31.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec 0 469 KBytes
[5] 31.00-32.00 sec 736 MBytes 6.17 Gbits/sec 0 489 KBytes
[5] 32.00-33.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec 1 481 KBytes
[5] 33.00-34.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec 0 484 KBytes
[5] 34.00-35.00 sec 910 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec 0 484 KBytes
[5] 35.00-36.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.51 Gbits/sec 0 441 KBytes
[5] 36.00-37.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.51 Gbits/sec 0 452 KBytes
[5] 37.00-38.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.49 Gbits/sec 0 458 KBytes
[5] 38.00-39.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.61 Gbits/sec 0 503 KBytes
[5] 39.00-40.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec 0 503 KBytes
[5] 40.00-41.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec 0 461 KBytes
[5] 41.00-42.00 sec 745 MBytes 6.25 Gbits/sec 0 467 KBytes
[5] 42.00-43.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec 0 492 KBytes
[5] 43.00-44.00 sec 912 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec 0 551 KBytes
[5] 44.00-45.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.61 Gbits/sec 0 506 KBytes
[5] 45.00-46.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec 0 498 KBytes
[5] 46.00-47.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec 0 526 KBytes
[5] 47.00-48.00 sec 918 MBytes 7.70 Gbits/sec 0 574 KBytes
[5] 48.00-49.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec 0 543 KBytes
[5] 49.00-50.00 sec 916 MBytes 7.68 Gbits/sec 0 501 KBytes
[5] 50.00-51.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec 0 520 KBytes
[5] 51.00-52.00 sec 821 MBytes 6.89 Gbits/sec 0 5.66 KBytes
[5] 52.00-53.00 sec 598 MBytes 5.01 Gbits/sec 0 467 KBytes
[5] 53.00-54.00 sec 648 MBytes 5.44 Gbits/sec 0 430 KBytes
[5] 54.00-55.00 sec 658 MBytes 5.51 Gbits/sec 0 433 KBytes
[5] 55.00-56.00 sec 666 MBytes 5.60 Gbits/sec 0 430 KBytes
[5] 56.00-57.00 sec 680 MBytes 5.71 Gbits/sec 0 413 KBytes
[5] 57.00-58.00 sec 662 MBytes 5.55 Gbits/sec 0 447 KBytes
[5] 58.00-59.00 sec 675 MBytes 5.66 Gbits/sec 0 427 KBytes
[5] 59.00-60.00 sec 672 MBytes 5.65 Gbits/sec 0 416 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 50.0 GBytes 7.16 Gbits/sec 1 sender
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 50.0 GBytes 7.16 Gbits/sec receiver

iperf Done.
[root@wrouter ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7 CPU8 CPU9 CPU10 CPU11 CPU12 CPU13 CPU14 CPU15 CPU16 CPU17 CPU18 CPU19 CPU20 CPU21 CPU22 CPU23
   0: 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 2-edge timer
   8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 8-edge rtc0
   9: 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 9-fasteoi acpi
  10: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 285 0 IR-IO-APIC 10-edge ipmi_si
  22: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 22-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
  23: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 297106 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 23-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
  25: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 16384-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  26: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 32768-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  27: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 36864-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  28: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 49152-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  29: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 53248-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  30: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 278528-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  31: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 458752-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  32: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 473088-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  37: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 33570816-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  38: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 33587200-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  39: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 33603584-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  40: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 33607680-edge PCIe PME, aerdrv
  47: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13680174 IR-IO-APIC 6-fasteoi ath9k
  50: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 512000-edge ahci[0000:00:1f.2]
  52: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9151 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048576-edge megasas6-msix0
  53: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 643798 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048577-edge megasas6-msix1
  54: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 727839 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048578-edge megasas6-msix2
  55: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 668285 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048579-edge megasas6-msix3
  56: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 685526 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048580-edge megasas6-msix4
  57: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 457687 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048581-edge megasas6-msix5
  58: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 567594 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048582-edge megasas6-msix6
  59: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 543709 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048583-edge megasas6-msix7
  60: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 537538 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048584-edge megasas6-msix8
  61: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 492656 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048585-edge megasas6-msix9
  62: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 148222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048586-edge megasas6-msix10
  63: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 203352 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048587-edge megasas6-msix11
  64: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 233922 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048588-edge megasas6-msix12
  65: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 297303 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048589-edge megasas6-msix13
  66: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 190959 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1048590-edge megasas6-msix14
  67: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 211615 IR-PCI-MSI 1048591-edge megasas6-msix15
  69: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 73771337 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1572864-edge red0
  88: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR-MSI 0-edge dmar0
  89: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR-MSI 1-edge dmar1
 113: 0 539402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748736-edge green0-rx-0
 114: 0 0 5840979 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748737-edge green0-rx-1
 115: 0 0 0 1204996 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748738-edge green0-rx-2
 116: 0 0 0 0 2017048 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748739-edge green0-rx-3
 117: 0 0 0 0 0 801063 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748740-edge green0-tx-0
 118: 0 0 0 0 0 0 634609 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748741-edge green0-tx-1
 119: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2082417 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748742-edge green0-tx-2
 120: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1348800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 37748743-edge green0-tx-3
 NMI: 35 73 44 70 29 42 26 44 28 242 22 138 25 62 23 58 18 52 20 49 18 63 18 90 Non-maskable interrupts
 LOC: 2168537 5522080 3504888 5177210 3311509 2420947 4210928 3015167 4677551 17597272 2727853 4082656 2426643 3647445 2406147 4341127 1559211 4365485 1728937 3990653 1464015 3385030 5286923 2677148 Local timer interrupts
 SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
 PMI: 35 73 44 70 29 42 26 44 28 242 22 138 25 62 23 58 18 52 20 49 18 63 18 90 Performance monitoring interrupts
 IWI: 2359 17379 5506 7946 3235 3667 1069 3526 1018 354424 557 7337 1200 4617 924 5799 647 6223 1075 7436 1142 5154 1430 268369 IRQ work interrupts
 RTR: 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
 RES: 2122 12567 5512 9355 3348 6681 2941 4838 2574 11124 2439 20036 2332 10729 2310 10832 2177 10100 2431 7975 2438 5444 2407 10564 Rescheduling interrupts
 CAL: 4773731 4669255 4655327 4621238 4585249 4629324 4560387 4616789 4564893 4688943 4508571 4657514 4477720 4710601 4490243 4667832 4426405 4618937 4473254 4604125 4441196 4587670 4498589 4588527 Function call interrupts
 TLB: 37107 16455 67732 29894 40563 7437 7068 11104 9336 7871 5425 7748 43520 12879 31968 11973 20514 12484 20474 20759 10075 4215 784 6554 TLB shootdowns
 TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
 THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
 DFR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deferred Error APIC interrupts
 MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
 MCP: 262 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 263 Machine check polls
 ERR: 0
 MIS: 0
 PIN: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt notification event
 NPI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nested posted-interrupt event
 PIW: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt wakeup event
[root@wrouter ~]#

```

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<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [12 March 2022 10:28 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/7 "2022-03-12T10:28:02Z")

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debian:

```nohighlight
Server listening on 5201
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 192.168.2.1, port 55186
[5] local 192.168.2.241 port 5201 connected to 192.168.2.1 port 55188
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[5] 0.00-1.00 sec 661 MBytes 5.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 1.00-2.00 sec 836 MBytes 7.01 Gbits/sec
[5] 2.00-3.00 sec 917 MBytes 7.69 Gbits/sec
[5] 3.00-4.00 sec 917 MBytes 7.69 Gbits/sec
[5] 4.00-5.00 sec 924 MBytes 7.75 Gbits/sec
[5] 5.00-6.00 sec 905 MBytes 7.59 Gbits/sec
[5] 6.00-7.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 7.00-8.00 sec 904 MBytes 7.58 Gbits/sec
[5] 8.00-9.00 sec 912 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec
[5] 9.00-10.00 sec 907 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 10.00-11.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec
[5] 11.00-12.00 sec 723 MBytes 6.06 Gbits/sec
[5] 12.00-13.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec
[5] 13.00-14.00 sec 903 MBytes 7.57 Gbits/sec
[5] 14.00-15.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec
[5] 15.00-16.00 sec 909 MBytes 7.62 Gbits/sec
[5] 16.00-17.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 17.00-18.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec
[5] 18.00-19.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 19.00-20.00 sec 927 MBytes 7.78 Gbits/sec
[5] 20.00-21.00 sec 944 MBytes 7.92 Gbits/sec
[5] 21.00-22.00 sec 732 MBytes 6.14 Gbits/sec
[5] 22.00-23.00 sec 892 MBytes 7.48 Gbits/sec
[5] 23.00-24.00 sec 905 MBytes 7.59 Gbits/sec
[5] 24.00-25.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec
[5] 25.00-26.00 sec 893 MBytes 7.49 Gbits/sec
[5] 26.00-27.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.48 Gbits/sec
[5] 27.00-28.00 sec 891 MBytes 7.47 Gbits/sec
[5] 28.00-29.00 sec 889 MBytes 7.46 Gbits/sec
[5] 29.00-30.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 30.00-31.00 sec 896 MBytes 7.52 Gbits/sec
[5] 31.00-32.00 sec 735 MBytes 6.17 Gbits/sec
[5] 32.00-33.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec
[5] 33.00-34.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 34.00-35.00 sec 910 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec
[5] 35.00-36.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.51 Gbits/sec
[5] 36.00-37.00 sec 895 MBytes 7.51 Gbits/sec
[5] 37.00-38.00 sec 893 MBytes 7.49 Gbits/sec
[5] 38.00-39.00 sec 907 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 39.00-40.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 40.00-41.00 sec 906 MBytes 7.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 41.00-42.00 sec 745 MBytes 6.25 Gbits/sec
[5] 42.00-43.00 sec 900 MBytes 7.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 43.00-44.00 sec 912 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec
[5] 44.00-45.00 sec 907 MBytes 7.61 Gbits/sec
[5] 45.00-46.00 sec 894 MBytes 7.50 Gbits/sec
[5] 46.00-47.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.65 Gbits/sec
[5] 47.00-48.00 sec 918 MBytes 7.70 Gbits/sec
[5] 48.00-49.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec
[5] 49.00-50.00 sec 916 MBytes 7.68 Gbits/sec
[5] 50.00-51.00 sec 911 MBytes 7.64 Gbits/sec
[5] 51.00-52.00 sec 816 MBytes 6.85 Gbits/sec
[5] 52.00-53.00 sec 603 MBytes 5.06 Gbits/sec
[5] 53.00-54.00 sec 648 MBytes 5.43 Gbits/sec
[5] 54.00-55.00 sec 656 MBytes 5.51 Gbits/sec
[5] 55.00-56.00 sec 667 MBytes 5.60 Gbits/sec
[5] 56.00-57.00 sec 680 MBytes 5.71 Gbits/sec
[5] 57.00-58.00 sec 662 MBytes 5.55 Gbits/sec
[5] 58.00-59.00 sec 675 MBytes 5.66 Gbits/sec
[5] 59.00-60.00 sec 673 MBytes 5.65 Gbits/sec
[5] 60.00-60.00 sec 1.60 MBytes 5.67 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 50.0 GBytes 7.16 Gbits/sec receiver
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201
-----------------------------------------------------------
iperf3: interrupt - the server has terminated
root@KAMERA:/home/whaskes# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
  0: 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 2-edge timer
  1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 IR-IO-APIC 1-edge i8042
  8: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 IR-IO-APIC 8-edge rtc0
  9: 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 9-fasteoi acpi
 12: 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 12-edge i8042
 16: 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 16-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
 18: 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 18-fasteoi i801_smbus, ata_generic
 23: 0 0 0 0 0 33 0 0 IR-IO-APIC 23-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
 24: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR-MSI 0-edge dmar0
 25: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DMAR-MSI 1-edge dmar1
 29: 0 0 576 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 409600-edge enp0s25
 30: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1572864-edge enp3s0
 31: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 574 IR-PCI-MSI 1572865-edge enp3s0-rx-0
 32: 574 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1572866-edge enp3s0-rx-1
 33: 0 574 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1572867-edge enp3s0-tx-0
 34: 0 0 574 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 1572868-edge enp3s0-tx-1
 35: 0 0 0 0 20911 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 512000-edge ahci[0000:00:1f.2]
 36: 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524288-edge enp1s0f0
 38: 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524290-edge enp1s0f0-fp-0
 39: 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524291-edge enp1s0f0-fp-1
 40: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 IR-PCI-MSI 524292-edge enp1s0f0-fp-2
 41: 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524293-edge enp1s0f0-fp-3
 42: 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524294-edge enp1s0f0-fp-4
 43: 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524295-edge enp1s0f0-fp-5
 44: 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524296-edge enp1s0f0-fp-6
 45: 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 524297-edge enp1s0f0-fp-7
 46: 0 0 0 0 0 1135 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526336-edge enp1s0f1
 48: 0 0 0 0 0 0 1389542 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526338-edge enp1s0f1-fp-0
 49: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2350376 IR-PCI-MSI 526339-edge enp1s0f1-fp-1
 50: 418051 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526340-edge enp1s0f1-fp-2
 51: 0 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526341-edge enp1s0f1-fp-3
 52: 0 0 269430 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526342-edge enp1s0f1-fp-4
 53: 0 0 0 85 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526343-edge enp1s0f1-fp-5
 54: 0 0 0 0 180710 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526344-edge enp1s0f1-fp-6
 55: 0 0 0 0 0 98671 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 526345-edge enp1s0f1-fp-7
 56: 0 0 0 0 0 0 171 0 IR-PCI-MSI 327680-edge xhci_hcd
 57: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3280 IR-PCI-MSI 32768-edge i915
 58: 0 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 360448-edge mei_me
 59: 0 0 268 0 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 49152-edge snd_hda_intel:card0
 60: 0 0 0 1015 0 0 0 0 IR-PCI-MSI 442368-edge snd_hda_intel:card1
NMI: 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 6 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 18349 21531 13339 11465 17729 10691 29154 28539 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 6 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 214 80 372 104 63 143 49 2813 IRQ work interrupts
RTR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
RES: 833 962 599 691 965 713 20210 1015 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 7348 7928 5322 4874 5407 5082 8323 10856 Function call interrupts
TLB: 1010 641 1247 606 970 1321 919 836 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
DFR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deferred Error APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
PIN: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt notification event
NPI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nested posted-interrupt event
PIW: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Posted-interrupt wakeup event

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```

```auto
root@KAMERA:/home/whaskes# /usr/sbin/ethtool enp1s0f1
Settings for enp1s0f1:
        Supported ports: [FIBRE]
        Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
                                10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported
        Advertised link modes: 10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 10000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Auto-negotiation: off
        Port: FIBRE
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

        Link detected: yes

```

ipfire: iperf3 -V

```auto
Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 34.2 GBytes 4.89 Gbits/sec 0 sender
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 34.2 GBytes 4.89 Gbits/sec receiver
CPU Utilization: local/sender 98.8% (0.4%u/98.4%s), remote/receiver 36.2% (3.6%u/32.6%s)
snd_tcp_congestion bbr
rcv_tcp_congestion cubic

iperf Done.

```

debian iperf3 -V

```auto
Test Complete. Summary Results:
[ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 65.1 GBytes 9.32 Gbits/sec 0 sender
[5] 0.00-60.00 sec 65.1 GBytes 9.32 Gbits/sec receiver
CPU Utilization: local/sender 59.0% (1.8%u/57.2%s), remote/receiver 52.3% (3.1%u/49.2%s)
snd_tcp_congestion cubic
rcv_tcp_congestion bbr

iperf Done.

```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [12 March 2022 12:07 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/8 "2022-03-12T12:07:00Z")

</div>

When I measure with iperf3, only one CPU core works, sometimes it switches to another, here is an image from the top. Where can I tell this to better distribute tasks between CPU cores? Looking for software or bios?

```auto
[root@wrouter ~]# top
top - 13:06:26 up 56 min, 2 users, load average: 0.70, 0.66, 0.77
Tasks: 349 total, 2 running, 347 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu0 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu1 : 0.0/18.6 19[|||||||||||||||||||]
%Cpu2 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu3 : 0.7/0.7 1[||]
%Cpu4 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu5 : 0.0/0.7 1[|]
%Cpu6 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu7 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu8 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu9 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu10 : 0.6/0.6 1[||]
%Cpu11 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu12 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu13 : 0.0/0.7 1[|]
%Cpu14 : 0.7/99.3 100[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||]
%Cpu15 : 0.7/0.7 1[||]
%Cpu16 : 0.7/1.3 2[||]
%Cpu17 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu18 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu19 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu20 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu21 : 0.7/0.7 1[||]
%Cpu22 : 0.0/0.0 0[]
%Cpu23 : 0.7/1.3 2[||]
GiB Mem : 13.6/31.3 []
GiB Swap: 0.0/1.0 []

```

---

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**Author:** ![bonnietwin](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/bonnietwin/32/12350_2.png) [@bonnietwin](https://community.ipfire.org/u/bonnietwin)\
**Post date:** [12 March 2022 12:14 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/9 "2022-03-12T12:14:20Z")

</div>

The ability to use multiple cores is something defined by the bios firmware. However it is not something that can be selected from the bios. The firmware is either written to spread the load over cores or it is not.

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**Author:** ![cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/cfusco/32/9213_2.png) [@cfusco](https://community.ipfire.org/u/cfusco)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2022 10:24 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/10 "2022-03-15T10:24:01Z")

</div>

The CPU bottle neck hypothesis seems to be correct. Even if you have a multicore, only one core is used maxing out the speed. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do, the firmware is responsible for distributing the workload, as @bonnietwin has said. When choosing the hardware for a firewall it is necessary to check both how the ethernet cards communicate with the CPU and if the CPU handles properly the multithread system. There are several discussion about this topic in IPFire forums.

Personally, I decided that my next machine will be one that has been tested for a firewall job by people that know what they are doing. In the IPFire case, [a lightning wire lab appliance](https://www.lightningwirelabs.com/products/ipfire/appliances)

---

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [20 March 2022 13:35 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/11 "2022-03-20T13:35:25Z")

</div>

I tried the dell r720 with a debian live system. Iperf3 ran perfectly well, showed good bandwidth, 10 gigabytes, and the CPU worked well. If I boot the system with ipfirel, it will only run around 5 giga. I think the hardware problem is ruled out. Any ideas?

---

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**Author:** ![theunicornxxl](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/theunicornxxl/32/15554_2.png) [@theunicornxxl](https://community.ipfire.org/u/theunicornxxl)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2022 00:17 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/12 "2022-03-26T00:17:28Z")

</div>

It’s not only the firmware/bios. This need only to activate the cores and a few CPU options.

Multitasking over more then one core is a combination of three things:

- Bios with correct options

- Program logic parallelization with different tasks

- OS which spreads the different tasks to different cores.  
This can only work if the OS knows the processor.

If the firewall process use only one task, it can only run on one core…

And I found one interesting point… IPFire don’t know my AMD processor completely, the CPU frequency Graph variable cpu9A0 is unknown…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dal8moc](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/dal8moc/32/8486_2.png) [@dal8moc](https://community.ipfire.org/u/dal8moc)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2022 07:37 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/13 "2022-03-26T07:37:51Z")

</div>

I guess the Debian system is using features like hardware offloading and the like. Thus part of the heavy lifting is happening outside the cpu. I’ve read somewhere - I think on the suricata website - that hardware offloading would mess with the packet order so ips systems get problems when tracking connections and recommend to disable such features.  
I do however have a problem imagining that your processor can’t handle 10g on its own. While you haven’t said what chip you have the impressive number of cores hints at some better chipset. Do you have error messages regarding drivers for your network card (s) in ipfire?

---

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**Author:** ![whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/whaskes/32/16301_2.png) [@whaskes](https://community.ipfire.org/u/whaskes)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2022 07:58 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/14 "2022-03-26T07:58:33Z")

</div>

There are no error messages about anything in the log.

My machine is a Dell PowerEdge R720-8BAY-LFF-CTO with 2 Xeon E5-2630Lv2 cpu

My previous machine had a Kontron KTQM87 / mITX motherboard running an Intel I7 4860eq processor. There was no problem with that in IPFire. Utilized 4 cores / 8 threads with a 10g connection, iperf3 showed good speeds. Suricata is disabled, only enabled on the RED0 network card.

[CPU](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/75791/intel-xeon-processor-e52630l-v2-15m-cache-2-40-ghz/specifications.html)

[fireinfo](https://fireinfo.ipfire.org/profile/5abcd62380db781461fcb0d15918c42fcf533c66)

````auto
[root@wrouter ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 1a (rev 04)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 2a (rev 04)
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 2c (rev 04)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 3a (rev 04)
00:03.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 3c (rev 04)
00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 VTd/Memory Map/Misc (rev 04)
00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 IIO RAS (rev 04)
00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Virtual Root Port (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset MEI Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:16.1 Communication controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset MEI Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS 2208 [Thunderbolt] (rev 05)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. cLOM8214 1/10GbE Controller (rev 54)
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. cLOM8214 1/10GbE Controller (rev 54)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 01)
08:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7757 PCIe Switch [PS]
09:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7757 PCIe Switch [PS]
09:01.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7757 PCIe Switch [PS]
0a:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7757 PCIe-PCI Bridge [PPB]
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G200eR2
3f:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
3f:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 1 (rev 04)
3f:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 0 (rev 04)
3f:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 1 (rev 04)
3f:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 2 (rev 04)
3f:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 3 (rev 04)
3f:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
3f:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
3f:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
3f:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
3f:0e.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
3f:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Target Address/Thermal Registers (rev 04)
3f:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 RAS Registers (rev 04)
3f:0f.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
3f:0f.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
3f:0f.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
3f:0f.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
3f:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 0 (rev 04)
3f:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 1 (rev 04)
3f:10.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 0 (rev 04)
3f:10.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 1 (rev 04)
3f:10.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 2 (rev 04)
3f:10.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 3 (rev 04)
3f:10.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 3 (rev 04)
3f:13.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
3f:13.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
3f:13.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Registers (rev 04)
3f:13.5 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Performance Ring Monitoring (rev 04)
3f:16.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 System Address Decoder (rev 04)
3f:16.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)
3f:16.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)
40:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 1a (rev 04)
40:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 2a (rev 04)
40:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 3a (rev 04)
40:03.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 3c (rev 04)
40:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 VTd/Memory Map/Misc (rev 04)
40:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 IIO RAS (rev 04)
41:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
42:01.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
42:04.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
42:05.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
42:07.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
42:09.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8606 6 Lane, 6 Port PCI Express Gen 2 (5.0 GT/s) Switch (rev ba)
46:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR958x 802.11abgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
7f:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
7f:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 1 (rev 04)
7f:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 0 (rev 04)
7f:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 1 (rev 04)
7f:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 2 (rev 04)
7f:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 3 (rev 04)
7f:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
7f:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
7f:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
7f:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
7f:0e.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
7f:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Target Address/Thermal Registers (rev 04)
7f:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 RAS Registers (rev 04)
7f:0f.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
7f:0f.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
7f:0f.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
7f:0f.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address Decoder Registers (rev 04)
7f:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 0 (rev 04)
7f:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 1 (rev 04)
7f:10.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 0 (rev 04)
7f:10.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 1 (rev 04)
7f:10.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 2 (rev 04)
7f:10.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 3 (rev 04)
7f:10.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Registers 3 (rev 04)
7f:13.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
7f:13.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
7f:13.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Registers (rev 04)
7f:13.5 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Performance Ring Monitoring (rev 04)
7f:16.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 System Address Decoder (rev 04)
7f:16.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)
7f:16.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)```
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**Author:** ![dal8moc](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/dal8moc/32/8486_2.png) [@dal8moc](https://community.ipfire.org/u/dal8moc)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2022 15:37 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/internal-network-problem/7363/15 "2022-03-26T15:37:07Z")

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Honestly, I‘m at a loss here. The specs of your machine should be enough even if it would only utilize 1 core I‘d say. I had the same opinion @cfusco had. But now I‘m not sure if there isn‘t another problem. Sorry, I don‘t know enough to diagnose that further.
