Mmm, all the by-pass ports I've ever encountered disconnect the internal interfaces when they are in by-pass mode. But I could imagine (maybe) a mode where it loops back the data lines while the MII connections from the PHY still report the link status. But for that to happen you would need both NICs in the by-pass pair to be linked.

In the end I didnt flash. I dont have the low clock speed issue. I also have a different board layout to the screenshots posted on the other forum, so I think my board revision is different, the bios may still be compatible but given I dont have the locked low clocked speeds, it would mostly be a "nice to have" thing for me rather than a necessity.

@NC1 This would be for home use, not infrastructure as it applies to Enterprise environments. It seems a 40Gbps bus would be plenty fast though for a 1Gb service from your local internet provider. Anyway... I don't know which drivers would be needed which is why I was asking if anyone has ever tried it or thought about it. Maybe someone would have some insight as to the pros and cons. I did see the price tag. I was merely trying to give an example of an external chassis a NIC card could be used in. As a side, I typically future proof my home builds to at least a minimum of 5 years if I can. In a configuration such as this, I could repurpose the NUC for some other future project and plug the external chassis with the NIC card into a different computer. Just a thought.

@stephenw10 thank you

Hello! I know this post is a while old, but others may experience the same issue. I have an XG125 appliance and had the same problem. How did I solve it? The appliance has 8 ports, and pfSense detects them all, but the ports are reversed in relation to the silkscreen numbers. Here is a list of ports: ibg0 = port 5 ibg1 = port 6 ibg2 = port 7 ibg3 = port 8 ibg4 = port 1 ibg5 = port 2 ibg6 = port 3 ibg7 = port 4

Hello! I know this post is a while old, but others may experience the same issue. I have an XG125 appliance and had the same problem. How did I solve it? The appliance has 8 ports, and pfSense detects them all, but the ports are reversed in relation to the silkscreen numbers. Here is a list of ports: ibg0 = port 5 ibg1 = port 6 ibg2 = port 7 ibg3 = port 8 ibg4 = port 1 ibg5 = port 2 ibg6 = port 3 ibg7 = port 4

How hot exactly is the CPU running? There's quite an extensive thread about these boxes though. IIRC some users swapped the BIOS for something with more options available.

@m782 I actually "interviewed" someone on Reddit on a similar topic; they have installed OPNsense on ASA 5525-X and 5515-X. Here's what they told me: https://www.reddit.com/r/opnsense/comments/147ot7f/comment/jnycohl/ I hope this is close enough to what you have on hand...

@NC1 No problem with the DIY and I do like the ability to upgrade if needed. Thanks for the info!

@stephenw10 Thank you sir! I know I might be one of the only ones in my boat deciding to add a Realtek NIC to a Netgate box just for the hell of it but it has been rock stable as my WAN port for over a year in the past and has been my LAN port the last couple to match up with my 2.5Gb switches, haven't ran into any issues with using it for either otherwise other than at that moment of upgrade, at the time didn't really seem like it was worth submitting a TAC ticket for since once you are inside of pfSense using one of the former images its easy enough to get working, migrating to using the Netgate Installer pretty well puts a halt at that very step without additional financial and hardware resources. Always happen to spot the random posts on Reddit occasionally from our next generation of techs and others whom are getting themselves motivated into entering or changing paths in the IT worlds wanting to experiment around with what they have available to them which is often some form of laptop or retired gaming rig of sorts and with Realtek cards more common than any of us wish they were since many of these boards have one soldered on board an un-replaceable without using an often highly not recommended USB-network adapter to accommodate, on a common high-schooler or college students kind of financial budget that can be an entirely unbearable task.

@interrupt said in Running pfSense on a meraki MX400: i have lcdproc configured and its fully functional. i will post a pic later. Thank you in advance for that! Looking forward to it. If possible, could you also post a brief hardware overview (I can see from the screenshot that the processor is Xeon E3-1275 v2, but there no information about stock memory and storage) and Lanner motherboard model number?

@vicking my guess: it should work if no IDS/IPS or traffic limiter are used. For comparison user vicking was able to get 500/500 on a PC Engine APU6 with PPPoE and the new if_pppoe driver (not sure how much with the old one). The APU6 has a CPU benchmark of 650 (single core 250), the E3940 got 1908 (single core 675) cpu benchmark AMD GX-412 vs Intel E3940.

@NC1 yea i did try using that command but it didn't help unfortunately. Sophos wouldn't give me the updated bios file, which is what is needed to be able to activate a hidden menu which has the 60/40 option hidden behind. I just ended up ripping the SSD out and put a different one i. And that solved my issue.

Bug for the rogue gui element: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16451

Hello, Not exactly the same card, but some information for you. I have the following on a pfSense 2.7.2 install: BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller The interfaces are the 'onboard' interfaces in a Dell R440 server. I'll admit that the latest firmware is likely not installed on the server, so this might only be a me problem? I have found that playing with SFP modules (i.e. remove / insert) while the system is running can cause the NIC to stop transmitting / receiving traffic. The only work around I have found is to reboot the node. Mike

@Pizzamaka Thanks for this information. Apparently, some of these files can become corrupt if the system loses power. While the appliance may still operate properly, these warnings every few seconds are annoying. So....rm -rf /var/db/rrd/* clears the corrupted files and life goes on. Thanks from a newb PFsense guy.

The ice(4) driver is in kernel already in 2.8.X.