Asic Offloading Question

Hi,

- Can you check the session and confirm if the ASIC offload is occurring?

- You can set the filters and check the session if the session is offloaded.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Using-filters-to-clear-sessions-on-a-FortiGate/ta-p/191368

- Check the "npu info" section as mentioned in the below document.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.1/hardware-acceleration/30072/checking-that-traffic-is-offloaded-by-np-processors

Regards,

Shiva

The option decides if the traffic is hardware-offloaded. Offload is enabled by default, and there is no reason to disable it except bugs. If you truly have higher throughput with offload disabled, open a TAC case on the support site. The sane expectation is the reverse - the FortiGate is expected to be able to have higher total throughput with offloaded traffic than with non-offloaded one.

Hello

auto-asic-offload enable: means special dedicated ASIC helps your CPU/kernel to do the job.

auto-asic-offload disable: CPU/kernel to do the job on his own

ASIC does it faster, So your assumption is wrong.