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  • pfSense on Watchguard M370

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    Yes, you can use the Net Installer. Just be sure to enable the serial console in the installer so it boots to that in the resulting install. The installer itself will show on both consoles.

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  • Intel I350-T4 Errors

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    For anyone interested in the exciting conclusions... it worked fine in the 16x slot for 2 weeks and is still in there now
    I put an I340-T4 in the 1x slot at the same time and left that running and that has been perfectly fine as well

    It seems to be an incompatibility between the 1x slot and the I350 specifically but i'm not sure why. In either case, the issue seems to be resolved

    It may be something specific to AM5 and the I350 in the 1x, or just the I350 and the 1x alone but if anyone else for some reason tries the same, at least you know what symptoms manifest and what the cause was

    Thanks again for those that helped and commented

  • Nvidia NIC driver ^tx checksum and tso4 issues^

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    Probably just that then. But you should see the set options and capabilities for those NICs like:

    [2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -vm igb0 igb0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500 description: WAN options=4e100bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG> capabilities=4f53fbb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>

    So there you can see the NIC is both checksum offload and TSO capable but only checksum is enabled.

  • SG4200 SFP+ Addon

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    @stephenw10

    I want to use 10GBIT DAC inside my rack and also directly attach to my ISPs Fiber. It'd be the perfect successor for the SG6100 with the SFP+ Addon installed.

  • Unable to use BCM57810 properly, need new drivers

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    Hmm, interesting. Hard to see how that driver could ever have made in difference when passed through like that.

    If you don't pass it through you could use the modified driver in Proxmox and then present it to pfSense as a virtual NIC until we get the patched driver in pfSense. Except you're saying the modified driver no longer loads in Proxmox.... 🤔

  • Panic String: page fault after migrating to a baremetal install

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    @stephenw10
    ok i sure will do thanks

  • Intel I350 errors - dont boot anymore

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    So initially it booted and then failed after 48hrs and now doesn't boot at all?

    Do you have the actual boot logs showing the errors?

  • Intel E810-C drivers

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    @jwt that is great news, thank you!

  • SG-2100: Internal Switch stucked + self-changed PVIDs

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    @bttech56 Hey, this was the only single tim IDs changed. Though I did move from LTE to optical cable, with terminal-only unit, so at the moment it is via ethernet port. Now I have about 3 months without reboot. No root cause identified.

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    @planedrop yep its an older thread, i arrived here through googling the issue i was having and this was one of the top results.

    whilst it is a virtualised environment, the commonality between them exists and my setup is largely indistinguishable from a non-virtualised setup. i'm using dedicated cores, binding IRQs to those cores, isolating them, using hardware passthrough.

    theres a variety of other threads who have had similar experiences with SR-IOV too.

    just to add this was with the default MTU of 1500 and rx / tx descriptors of 4k on the linux side

    improving this on the freebsd side (by placing into the loader.conf.local)

    #enable iflib overrides for ixv interfaces dev.ixv.0.iflib.override_qs_enable="1" dev.ixv.1.iflib.override_qs_enable="1" # Set 4K descriptors dev.ixv.0.iflib.override_nrxds="4096" dev.ixv.0.iflib.override_ntxds="4096" dev.ixv.1.iflib.override_nrxds="4096" dev.ixv.1.iflib.override_ntxds="4096" # Enable iflib overrides for ix interface dev.ix.0.iflib.override_qs_enable="1" # Set 4K descriptors for ix interface dev.ix.0.iflib.override_nrxds="4096" dev.ix.0.iflib.override_ntxds="4096"

    seems to have helped out with regard to rx_no_dma_resources issues, you can generally check if you are having those same issues by looking at

    sysctl dev.ix | grep -E "(r_drops|r_stalls|r_restarts|no_desc_avail|credits|override_n[rt]xds)"
  • Unable to Register and Download Firmware for SG-1100

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    @jra9511 where does it fail in the process.. What error does it present? I just created a new account and didn't have any issues.

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  • pfSense 2.8 VM single core 100%

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    I think I figured it out my mistake to over commit CPU in a VM . Now seens to not get stuck at 100%

  • WatchGuard Firebox T70

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    You might be able to get OpenWRT to run on there if you can get access. You should see something on the console though. I'd make sure your terminal setup is good, RJ-45 serial lead is correct etc.

  • Package realtek-re-kmod198 for pfSense 2.8.0 (amd64)

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    @zeroepoch Thank you. That worked like a charm on a 2.5 GBE Realtek adapter. I had to modify the install command as the affected interface was the WAN-side, so I had no internet connection:

    pkg install --no-repo-update ./realtek-re-kmod198-198.00.150029.pkg

    Hope that Netgate will include this driver in future releases as it is a pain to get this running on a dedicated server at Hetzner.com when the have a 2.5 GBE as a default LAN adapter.

  • APEI Corrected memory error.

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    Well, it pretty much has to be bad hardware and almost certainly bad RAM.

    You don't need 20GB so I'd try removing some until the error goes away.

  • QLogic QL41134 PCIe 10Gb 4-Port Base-T Ethernet Adapter Driver issue

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    @stephenw10 Thank you Stephen!

  • SSD: TRIM yes or no / SWAP yes or no ?

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    The only way this is possible currently is to use the syslogng package. There you can set a location to use for log storage which can be a different drive or partition. If you then set /var as a ram drive system logging does not write to the drive.

    BUT.... there is no built in management of different drives in pfSense so you need to use custom scripts to do that. Hence it's not supportable.

  • Best Mini PC Options to Consider

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    Both will work with VLANs. It may not have some offloading but you can do VLANs entirely in software if needed.

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