@foolish86 with some modify now go 300mbit. not bad, but still missing more 500mbit

Looks like you have a static ARP entry set which is pretty much never required. You see that error though because it cannot allocate memory in the ARP table for an IP in a subnet the firewall doesn't have an interface in. Which is probably because the re NIC has gone AWOL. Installing the pkg is not enough. You still need the loader line to load it at boot: See: https://forum.netgate.com/post/962889 Steve

@stephenw10 probably, I'm not super knowledgeable on how this stuff works in the back end. It does make sense that its a driver limitation, or maybe bug? Either way its nice that autoselect works as it should. Can't wait to get my other cards in and top out my provisioned speed. I can see when running a speed test it maxes out my 1Gbe nic in my desktop

Doesn't looks like that supports FreeBSD at all. No drivers. For example: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/144274/pfsense-with-cisco-c200-m2-and-cisco-n2xx-acpci01-10gbe Steve

Small update. Bought 5019C-FL, installed xcp-ng, and pfsense. Having pfBlockerNg, nordvpn for some vlans and VPN server. Everything runs as expected. I'm overexcited with pfSense after dd-wrt:)

@nan0tech said in Confusion on driver for Nic: Is there a way to force this card to load with the EM driver? Nope. But from your description of the problem I'm not sure it's a driver issue at all. Is it actually dropping the link or just dpinger restarting? Steve

@stephenw10 yeah, it seems really related to the cable. If I use a USB-serial adapter with a serial-console cable it works as expected :-)

@stoltzy said in Shuttle DH110 slow network issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/mc8x8a/poor_speeds_in_shuttle_dh110/ BIOS update? Interesting.

I found another post (https://hardforum.com/threads/pfsense-2-5-new-configurations-for-igb-performance.2008210/#post-1044942639) and made some additional changes (only to the tunables as I'm not confident and knowledgeable enough to modify the loader.conf) which seemed to improve throughput, which one of these did the trick I have no idea but on my 200/20 speed I was previously getting around 90/12 I'm now achieving around 150/16 but I know that my device has previously been capable of 180/19 so I'll keep playing until I can improve the speed further but I'd be very grateful for any additional ideas/changes/tweaks etc...

@nicholfd To be fair it is perception. I had to compile some code for DoH on a Pi and it ran more than 30 minutes. Same compile on a VM on a gen4 i7 took less than 5 minutes. In my experience Arm CPUs are a little weak in computational work. That is to be expected, the chips are meant to run phones and not use much power. Your RPi build is interesting and may be good for most home users. I am interested in finding out how fast it can go.

@jwj Thank you! Yeah I still own a temperature controlled soldering iron and know how to use it. I just don’t trust myself with most SMT stuff, too small for my old clumsy big hands. I remember my first home hard drive, a 20MB MFM Seagate. It seemed huge! Before then my first “home computer” was a Sinclair ZX81, followed by a C=64, and several programmable HP calculators. Talking of RS-232, I still have a breakout box. I need to look up if the Brocade uses the same RJ-45 pin out as Cisco et al. Happy days those were!

A Cisco pin-out works with almost everything but occasionally you find something weird. It should work with the supplied cable. Though it's always possible the supplied cable is itself is bad since they are probably untested, at least by the appliance manufacturer. If your terminal setup works with other devices, especially the same type of device, that seems like a hardware issue. Steve

@stephenw10 Yes that seemed to work. Rebooted router and modem. That worked. Thanks For your help, will test for awhile and get back to you:)

That's normally some BIOS setting or an ACPI error. I could imagine a signage device being configured so you cannot shut it down. Steve

It is working now, thanks. See the link I posted about my switch not passing packets... I need multiple VLANS on LAN and WAN interface, but it is working fine now.

@nollipfsense yeah I thought about using a KVM I think I have one around here somewhere, only problem is the wiring closet is about 15m from my desk and I ‘m a bit short on space on my desk anyway. On a related subject how much throughput do you get on the Mac Mini?

The first step would be to replicate it in FreeBSD. Then if that still looks wrong I would post about it in the FreeBSD forum to see if anyone else has hit. Then I'd probably ask there about reporting it but it would be done here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Steve

That's an installer image though. And you only appear to have one drive connected. What are you expecting to install to? You should install to the CF in something else and then move it across if you're doing that. Otherwise use a NanoBSD image. If you can find one. Really you should retire that and get something from the last decade IMO. Steve