I have heard mixed results on the forum and it depends on your setup. In general, if everything works and you are not using something like QoS, yes you would want SFE enabled.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:55 Post subject:
SFE is enabled by default..but..I prefer not to use it..
It is a software packet acceleration engine, that has a purpose to increase the WAN to LAN performance...(WAN speed) but, it could also break some things..so, unless its not needed, i turn it off
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:09 Post subject:
Alozaros wrote:
SFE is enabled by default..but..I prefer not to use it..
It is a software packet acceleration engine, that has a purpose to increase the WAN to LAN performance...(WAN speed) but, it could also break some things..so, unless its not needed, i turn it off
my ISP speed is not matching my router CPU capabilities...yet..
I fully agree.
It used to be automatically turned off if you have virtual interfaces.
When having more than one interface SFE might become confused and use the wrong interface.
This can lead to all kinds of spurious routing errors and packet loss.
Chances are small (it probably happens as both interfaces switch to SFE path at the exact same time) but still a liability.
Furthermore Bandwidth monitoring is not accurate any more and some forms of QoS do not work with it.
SFE and other accelerators are a stop gap for underpowered routers.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:03 Post subject:
The newer ARM CPUs certainly can but not many routers currently have the newer arm CPU's (there are exceptions, you have one I know)
Arm v8 A53 which is used in the newest routers is still a mediocre albeit power efficient Arm core with poor IPC (A7 class), of course clocked at 2.2 GHz and quad core gives some room
OK, great stuff, so i will just turn it off and leave it off. Many thanks also to you all. I have learned so much thanks to the forum members and users, i appreciate more than youll ever know... :)
It has been noted that in Router mode (not Gateway mode) that SFE may wreak havoc. So, to avoid any possible issues, the answer to your query is yes. However, it isn't necessary to switch to Router mode for wired APs as has also been noted by sir @egc. _________________ "The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
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