Here's a follow-up of the Supermicro 5018D-FN8T that I'm now using as a router for my homelab.

0:00 Intro 0:45 Virtualization 2:17 VMware multiple interfaces bug 3:06 Interface Configuration 6:00 Benchmarks 8:24 IPsec Benchmarks 10:11 Wrap-up

In order to get pfSense to use multiple queues for VMnet interfaces, you need to create a file at /boot/loader.conf.local with the following content: hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist=“0” hw.vmx.txnqueue=4 hw.vmx.rxnqueue=4 hw.vmx.txndesc=2048 hw.vmx.rxndesc=2048

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