Getting the Full 5 Gbps Through an OPNsense VM on Proxmox
VMs behind my OPNsense router were stuck at 2 Gbps on a 5 Gbps fiber line. Two host-side fixes, GRO and virtio multiqueue, doubled routed throughput.

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VMs behind my OPNsense router were stuck at 2 Gbps on a 5 Gbps fiber line. Two host-side fixes, GRO and virtio multiqueue, doubled routed throughput.
This would be a good starting place to talk about my home-lab setup. So this is no ordinary home-lab. Then again, what is ordinary about any home lab. I have…