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Can R81.20 Support 10Gb interfaces?
I currently have a 1Gb internet facing interface, along with 1-1Gb internal and 2-1Gb interfaces. Does anyone know what the max. interface speed is, and what contingencies there may be to this solution?
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What specific hardware?
This isn’t a version specific question, but a hardware specific one.
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This is a VSEC appliance running on VMWare.
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Right, but it's still a hardware specific question because there is ultimately a NIC driver involved 🙂
On my R81.20 system using the vmxnet3 driver, I can see the virtual interface supports 10gb.
You can see this with ethtool and the relevant interface name.
If you're using, say, an e1000 driver, you'll be limited to 1gb.
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It is actually the E1000E virtual adapter. If this won't work, will it work with the VMXNET3 virtual adapter? The underlying hardware adapters will be switched to Broadcom 10Gb fiber adapters.
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e1000 is emulating actual hardware, so it’s going to be slower than vmxnet3 and max out at 1gb line rate.
vmxnet3 does list a 10gb line speed for the vNIC.
Whether you’ll get anywhere near that sort of line rate out of that virtual NIC in VMware is a separate question.
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Just to add on to what Phoneboy said the vmxnet3 also supports Multi-Queue while e1000 does not, this comes in very handy for my Gateway Performance Optimization course where attendees interact with Multi-Queue on virtualized gateways. We also enable and work with Dynamic Split and Hyperflow/Pipeline Processing even though doing so is not supported on a virtualized gateway.
Exclusively at CPX 2025 Las Vegas Tuesday Feb 25th @ 1:00pm
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The following resources might be helpful for you:
https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk104848
https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk169252
