Yup, looks like it just groups them together as a gen4 devices.

Looks like you can add a usbquirk to make it start in ppp mode: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/97997/mf823-lte-usb-ethernet-modem-not-appearing-as-ue0

@stephenw10 said in Hardware requirements for 10Gb/s WAN: You mean an X710? Or maybe an X520? An intel X710, that is. Apologies for the confusion. In Europe, ISPs are obliged to allow their customers to use their own ‘modem’, but most of them drop support as soon as customers do. So I’ve put the cheap ISP ‘modem’ on the front line, and that is capped at the same speed. As soon as that’s running at the speed I paid for, I will connect my pfSense box straight to my own ONT, and post some speed results here.

Nice.

@stephenw10 Thanks!

I had/have one of those and it worked great. CompactFast storage is novel. However it died with typical C2K CPU failure symptoms. Most of those will have a lot of hours on and might also fail so be aware. Steve

@Wholelottapfsense said in S.M.A.R.T. overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! but no errors when testing: In your experience, is it normal that the SSDs are EOL after about 4 years (it's a home router/firewall)? Hello! SuperDOM Endurance Use Cases This is for the older part numbers, but the DWPD (and TBW?) are the same with the newer parts. John

@MrCatDad said in 3 Gbps + PfSense - Advice/suggestions.: The company is called Community Fibre in the UK. Oh, you're lucky! Here am I stuck on g.fast.

@Guillaurent said in Intel Celeron N2830 as 2.5Gbps router: Celeron N2830 Yes, that's a 10 year old CPU. I would look at something newer if you;re buying a new device. I'd guess, because I've not tested that personally, that it wouldn't pass 2.5G in pfSense. It might do 2G but there wouldn't be much overhead. Steve

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.