The Qotom C3758R Unit Continued…

Just a quick update on networking experiences with this fanless (but hot) unit…

 

Why Is It Not In Sync? (buy buy buy)…

For some odd reason, throughput on stock Ubuntu 24.04 LTS via a 10GbE SFP+ module was showing asymmetrical speeds on iperf3 – ~10Gbps in, but only ~6Gbps out. Checking the firewall, ensuring jumbo packets (9000 byte MTU), ensuring ufw was disabled, disabling all forms of NIC offloading (although this may actually be inverse to the intended) did not change anything. Furthermore, htop showed one core constantly maxing out when sending (but hovering 60% to 75% on receiving).

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