Questions about the FastPath Feature

Hi Dom Nik,

      Thanks for your feedback. Please find the answer inline.

Is this related to the new fast-path feature?

Yes, This issue already identified and tracked using Jira id NC-51957 which is fixed in upcoming next v18 release.

What could be the reason for the failure?

Your XG firewall ethernet driver is not supported fast-path feature.Please share ethtool -i <your interface name> output.

Is the fast path feature available to SW appliances / virtual machines/home users etc.?

It depends on the ethernet interface driver.

Hi Apurv,

I am getting this also from my software firewall, but this time not virtual. here is the output from the ethtool

SFVH_SO01_SFOS 18.0.0 EAP3-Refresh1# ethtool -i Port2
driver: r8168
version: 8.046.00-NAPI
firmware-version:
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:03:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

is this going to be supported?

Hi Argo,

the Realtek series on NIC are not high performance devices, they rely on off loading to the CPU so creating a fastpath driver for them would not seem logical or practical.

All the realtech devices are not used in commercial devices only home and low end PCs etc.

Ian

good to know, anyone know of a good NUC or mini pc that has high perf NICs for FastPath?

Hi Argo,

try this one

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000492465406.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000023.6.3d0c44c0v4uiBr

The Intel NUCs are usually based around the unsupported i219 series NICs, so check the specifications carefully.

There a number of threads in the normal XG forum about mini pcs, please search.

Ian

Hi Argo,

try this one

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000492465406.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000023.6.3d0c44c0v4uiBr

The Intel NUCs are usually based around the unsupported i219 series NICs, so check the specifications carefully.

There a number of threads in the normal XG forum about mini pcs, please search.

Ian