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+ <section id="bras-tuning">
+<h1>BRAS tuning<a class="headerlink" href="#bras-tuning" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
+<p>Recommendations for BRAS (Broadband Remote Access Server) performance.</p>
+<section id="network-tuning">
+<h2>Network tuning<a class="headerlink" href="#network-tuning" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
+<section id="disable-kernel-mitigations-to-maximize-performance">
+<h3>Disable kernel mitigations to maximize performance<a class="headerlink" href="#disable-kernel-mitigations-to-maximize-performance" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>Edit file <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/default/grub</span></code></p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=1 idle=poll quiet mitigations=off&quot;</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Additional GRUB CMD arguments:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<div><ul class="simple">
+<li><p>ixgbe.allow_unsupported_sfp=1 - Allow to use not original Intel SFP+ modules</p></li>
+<li><p>pcie_aspm=off - Disable Active-State Power Management</p></li>
+</ul>
+</div></blockquote>
+<p>After saving, please update grub settings</p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$sudo</span><span class="w"> </span>update-grub
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Warning! Enabling the idle loop (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">idle=poll</span></code>) parameter can cause 100% CPU utilization on your VM (if you’re using virtual enviroments like ProxMox, VMWare, etc.)</p>
+</section>
+<section id="disable-nic-offloads">
+<h3>Disable NIC offloads<a class="headerlink" href="#disable-nic-offloads" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>Disable hardware offloads,increase Tx/Rx buffers and queue length on your NICs to prevent speed problems.
+Please note, that GSO offload changed to tx-gso-partial in Linux kernels 4.15 and later.</p>
+<p>Debian <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/network/interfaces</span></code>:</p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>allow-hotplug<span class="w"> </span>eth0
+iface<span class="w"> </span>eth0<span class="w"> </span>inet<span class="w"> </span>manual
+<span class="w"> </span>up<span class="w"> </span>ethtool<span class="w"> </span>-K<span class="w"> </span>eth0<span class="w"> </span>tso<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>gso<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>gro<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>rxvlan<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>txvlan<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>rx-vlan-filter<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span>ntuple<span class="w"> </span>on<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">&amp;</span>&gt;<span class="w"> </span>/dev/null
+<span class="w"> </span>up<span class="w"> </span>ethtool<span class="w"> </span>-K<span class="w"> </span>eth0<span class="w"> </span>tx-gso-partial<span class="w"> </span>off<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">&amp;</span>&gt;<span class="w"> </span>/dev/null
+<span class="w"> </span>up<span class="w"> </span>ethtool<span class="w"> </span>-G<span class="w"> </span>eth0<span class="w"> </span>rx<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">4096</span><span class="w"> </span>tx<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">4096</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">&amp;</span>&gt;<span class="w"> </span>/dev/null
+<span class="w"> </span>up<span class="w"> </span>ip<span class="w"> </span>link<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">set</span><span class="w"> </span>eth0<span class="w"> </span>txqueuelen<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">10000</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">&amp;</span>&gt;<span class="w"> </span>/dev/null
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Please determine your NIC queue and buffers limit before increase:</p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>ethtool<span class="w"> </span>-g<span class="w"> </span>eth0
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+</section>
+<section id="fix-download-speed-problem-shaper">
+<h3>Fix Download speed problem (shaper)<a class="headerlink" href="#fix-download-speed-problem-shaper" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>Change shaper from htb to tbf</p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">[</span>shaper<span class="o">]</span>
+…
+down-limiter<span class="o">=</span>tbf
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+</section>
+<section id="default-rate-limits-shaper">
+<h3>Default rate limits (shaper)<a class="headerlink" href="#default-rate-limits-shaper" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>If radius-server Access-Accept answer has no compatible speed attributes - to prevent unlimited session speed you can add default rate-limits (in Kbps).</p>
+<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nano</span> <span class="pre">/etc/accel-ppp.conf</span></code></p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">[</span>shaper<span class="o">]</span>
+rate-limit<span class="o">=</span><span class="m">888</span>/888
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+</section>
+<section id="change-pppoe-mtu">
+<h3>Change PPPoE MTU<a class="headerlink" href="#change-pppoe-mtu" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>You can adjust allowed PPPoE min/max MTU/MRU settings:
+<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nano</span> <span class="pre">/etc/accel-ppp.conf</span></code></p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">[</span>ppp<span class="o">]</span>
+<span class="nv">verbose</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1</span>
+min-mtu<span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1280</span>
+<span class="nv">mtu</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1492</span>
+<span class="nv">mru</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1492</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+</section>
+<section id="hotplug-optimization">
+<h3>Hotplug optimization<a class="headerlink" href="#hotplug-optimization" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<p>To generate hotplug events on IPoE interfaces (Debian 10):</p>
+<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nano</span> <span class="pre">/lib/udev/ifupdown-hotplug</span></code></p>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">case</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="nv">$ACTION</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span>
+add<span class="o">)</span>
+<span class="c1"># these interfaces generate hotplug events *after* they are brought up</span>
+<span class="k">case</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">$INTERFACE</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span>
+<span class="w"> </span>ppp*<span class="p">|</span>ippp*<span class="p">|</span>isdn*<span class="p">|</span>plip*<span class="p">|</span>lo<span class="p">|</span>irda*<span class="p">|</span>ipsec*
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>just add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">|ipoe*</span></code> after <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">|ipsec*</span></code></p>
+<p>repeat with file <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/lib/udev/net.agent</span></code></p>
+</section>
+<section id="systemd-udev-optimizations">
+<h3>SYSTEMD-UDEV optimizations<a class="headerlink" href="#systemd-udev-optimizations" title="Link to this heading"></a></h3>
+<ol class="arabic simple">
+<li><p>Delete <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">99-default.link</span></code> from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/lib/systemd/network/</span></code> directory</p></li>
+</ol>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>rm<span class="w"> </span>/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
+<li><p>Change <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/lib/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules</span></code></p></li>
+</ol>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">ACTION</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="s2">&quot;add&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">SUBSYSTEM</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="s2">&quot;net&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span>KERNEL!<span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;lo|ppp*|ipoe*&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">RUN</span><span class="o">+=</span><span class="s2">&quot;/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --prefix=/net/ipv4/conf/</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="s2"> --prefix=/net/ipv4/neigh/</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="s2"> --prefix=/net/ipv6/conf/</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="s2"> --prefix=/net/ipv6/neigh/</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">|ppp*|ipoe*</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KERNEL!=&quot;lo&quot;</span></code></p>
+<ol class="arabic simple" start="3">
+<li><p>Change <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/lib/udev/rules.d/80-ifupdown.rules</span></code></p></li>
+</ol>
+<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">SUBSYSTEM</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="s2">&quot;net&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">ACTION</span><span class="o">==</span><span class="s2">&quot;add|remove&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span>KERNEL!<span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;ppp*|ipoe*&quot;</span>,<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">RUN</span><span class="o">+=</span><span class="s2">&quot;ifupdown-hotplug&quot;</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Add <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KERNEL!=&quot;ppp*|ipoe*&quot;</span></code></p>
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