Great to hear!

You could test something locally that you know is just using one CPU core. Yes the NICs will be using multiple queues if they can. At a power preference value of 50 I'm surprised it ever ramps down. I use 80 or 90 to achieve low power operation on devices here.

OK that bug has the info we need. But the bug itself is already fixed as evidenced by the fact your system recognises the HSUART devices.

You need to add that loader line to /boot/loader.conf.local otherwise it will be overwritten by the system. Create that file.
You might also need to add to that file the line: console=efi

Otherwise the standard console type applies and defaults the hw.uart.console value.

@stephenw10 YOUR ARE A LEGEND!!!
ya saw some post saying i should disable the port but that had no affect but u mentioning its the bridge and what its doing told me i should remove the ports from the bridge instead of disabling the ports

would leaving these unused ports attached to the bridge affect performance/latency in anyway??

now would u be able to answer another question? seems the traffic shaping section of the forum is quite dead
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/185727/traffic-shaping-per-port-or-bridge

@phaistos said in Intel N100 + i226-V good option?:

@polnetgate The intel i226V NIC is a terrible option. Avoid like the plague.
I have been trialing a N5100 i226V tuofudon setup which is disconnecting continually.
The Intel EEE disable mitigation and many other suggested fixes from various commentators have no effect. They may work in certain circumstances but there is no guarantee, even with 2.7+ and 23.05+.
Choose a non Intel i225 / i226 setup and save yourself some grief.

@stephenw10 said in Intel N100 + i226-V good option?:

It's interesting. It appears there's more to the issue than simply using the i225/6 NICs, like how they are implemented on the board. We see no issues with the i226-V NICs in the 8200 or 4200 for example.

Indeed. I have an N5105 with i225V B3 and now an N100 with i226V (the N5105 is a backup in case anything goes wrong) and had zero problems with either.

ServeTheHome has also reviewed many of these off Aliexpress and seemingly never had any issues.

I also have the Intel chips (can't remember which) in two desktop PCs with no issues.

I doubt it will at this point. That's a >10 year old chipset. It looks like there was some interest at one point but nothing came of it:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-September/thread.html#36714

The switch with VLANs would remove the need for a USB NIC. I wouldn't have any worries about the reliability of VLANs either and you would already be using a switch.

However something with two NICs is less config to get wrong. 😉

@stephenw10

Yes, I upgraded pfsense 2.7 (not 2.7.2)

Thank you.

@stephenw10 Steve, gotcha. Thanks!

[SOLVED] by mellanox cards change from Infiniband to Ethernet

[SOLVED]

Thank you all for all the tips and recommendations. I have now solved the issue by doing the following:

As pfSense was crashing when I plugged a cable into one of the ports, and the ports were all in auto (IB) mode as I discovered, I figured it might be an issue related to the NIC changing its configuration from IB to ETH, and FreeBSD trying to load the driver or something (I'm not sure).

However, I saw this amazing video on changing the mode of the NIC permanently with the MFT tool. As the configuration gets saved to the NIC itself, you can use any other Linux or FreeBSD installation, use MFT to change the values, and then reinstall pfSense. After that, the NIC is correctly in the ETH mode, and the driver loads correctly without issues. (I see no issues displayed in dmesg as far as I can tell.)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qN7Qg3bSg

Now, I just need to make sure the cards run stable and reliably, but from what I see now, I am confident.

Thanks again to everyone who helped.

@stephenw10

Yes exactly, that's how it is.
I'm using 2.5G and nothing is plugged into the USB ports. As far as I can remember, I even disabled them in the BIOS.

@stephenw10 thank you very much on this...issue solved.

@stephenw10 Thanks. it worked for me

The ixl (X710) Intel card we sell works well. I've also used older X520 based cards successfully.

@stephenw10 Perfect! It works. Thanks!

@stephenw10 Thank you for the quick response. It worked!

@stephenw10: All that makes sense. I had hoped to find something less expensive that this:

Netgate 1100 for $209
EnGenius EWS356-FIT AP for $70
iCreatin PSE-480050US PoE injector for $10.

I will propose that to my client.

@SteveITS said in Netgate 6100 went to standby:

@NeVaR Is that the NUT package? See https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184928/system-shuts-down-when-ups-does-a-self-test. I've not configured NUT only apcupsd.

It is nut package. So likely change to NUT package

Hey Guys,

I figured it out.

The problem was the Intel SFP+ Module (Intel Corp PN: FTLX8571D3BCVIT1).

It works with the Ubiquiti SFP+ Module (UACC-OM-MM-10G-D-2).

And for the fun I tried a DAC from Cisco (CISCO-TYCO PN: 1-2053783-1) and it also works with 10Gbit.

Hope somebody someday finds this helpfull.

Thanks for the Help.

@stephenw10 When I try to force it into 10Gbit the link goes down with the Intel Module.