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Improving NP6 or NP7 GTP performance

Improving NP6 or NP7 GTP performance

FortiGate models with NP6 or NP7 processors support improving FortiOS GTP performance by enabling the following option:

config system npu

set gtp-support enable

set gtp-enhanced-mode enable

end

There are independent Receive and Transmit queues for GTP-U processes. These queues and their associated resources are initialized when gtp-enhanced-mode is enabled. After entering this command you should restart your FortiGate to initialize the changes.

If you restore a configuration file, and if that restored configuration file has a different gtp-enhanced-mode setting, you should restart your FortiGate to initialize the changes.

Some FortiGate models also allows you to select the CPUs that can perform GTP-U packet inspection.

config system npu

set gtp-enhanced-cpu-range {0 | 1 | 2}

end

Where:

0 all CPUs will process GTP-U packets

1 only primary CPUs will process GTP-U packets.

2 only secondary CPUs will process GTP-U packets.

Improving NP6 or NP7 GTP performance

FortiGate models with NP6 or NP7 processors support improving FortiOS GTP performance by enabling the following option:

config system npu

set gtp-support enable

set gtp-enhanced-mode enable

end

There are independent Receive and Transmit queues for GTP-U processes. These queues and their associated resources are initialized when gtp-enhanced-mode is enabled. After entering this command you should restart your FortiGate to initialize the changes.

If you restore a configuration file, and if that restored configuration file has a different gtp-enhanced-mode setting, you should restart your FortiGate to initialize the changes.

Some FortiGate models also allows you to select the CPUs that can perform GTP-U packet inspection.

config system npu

set gtp-enhanced-cpu-range {0 | 1 | 2}

end

Where:

0 all CPUs will process GTP-U packets

1 only primary CPUs will process GTP-U packets.

2 only secondary CPUs will process GTP-U packets.