@Iron_Man Did this... and it works nicely. Last year I got a used Mac mini 2014 with 8GB RAM for a great price. Installed two left over Thunderbolt Ethernet adaptors and ProxMox virtualisation software. This runs pfSense, next to a few small VM for automation and other stuff. I even have a VM with macOS Monterey for occiasional testing purposes on it and this all works quite well. For pfSense I assigned 2GB memory and 200GB virtual storage. And I added a few tweaks for better performance for multi core CPU's https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#pppoe-with-multi-queue-nics pfSense works fast. Great throughput.

@Epimpin So, back to initial questions, which PCIe slot would be better in this certain case ? Your opinion…

Excellent, thanks!

thanks all for trying to help! I'm giving up and looking for a new box.

You can't open a support ticket without a subscription, that's true.

Ah, nice! I run that at 80 on an i5-6400T for reference. Seems about optimal for my use but that's just a test box, it's not always on.

Good question, I've never seen one to find out. I imagine it would have to be in the QAT driver or possibly the crypto framework.

Thanks for all I found a link on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2mI0myAEXA I will try booting from the Linux kernel. If this is done perfectly, we will discuss the rest of the hardware. It will be a fun experience

@stephenw10 said in Intel x550-t2 can not disable flow control properly: hw.ix.flow_control=0 Thank you, this one worked

@glippi Hello, after swapping out the intel 82599 10 gigabit dual port and moving this to the onboard ethernet with PCI passthrough to the VM, it seems everything is stable now. the AHCI errors, however consistent with disks (as far as I can see), it seems that in this case it was with the ethernet controller. My guess it was just a faulty card as since moving over I have had no issues now for 18 days. If you would like any logs, please let me know which one you would like to see for further investigation on this.

@stephenw10 Thank you very much for the detailed response.

@stephenw10 said in NIC issues and advise: It could be in a shellcmd: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/boot-commands.html?highlight=shellcmd#shellcmd-option thanks i managed to find it and remove it. issue has not happened in a week or so now. Next step is to figure out the realtek nic issue.

The igc driver/hardware can only be autoselect. For some reason setting it to that specifically can cause it to go into a loop of some sort as your saw. You could try setting it to 2.5G which will prevent it linking at 1G. It still negotiates that though so if the modem for some reason stops allowing 2.5G it will just fail to link.

@maxster This is the one that I used. https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/collections/unifi-accessory-tech-cable-sfp/products/10gbps-direct-attach-cable?variant=UACC-DAC-SFP10-0.5M

@MikeSpears @stephenw10 I confirmed I can issue commands directly from a shell to communicate with the A125 display with pfSense temporarity installed on an external USB SSD on my QNAP TS-653A. Same shell scripts I created for TrueNAS CORE: https://github.com/elvisimprsntr/QnapFreeLCD #!/bin/sh NAME="`hostname -s`" stty -f /dev/cuau1.lock 1200 stty -f /dev/cuau1.init 1200 stty -f /dev/cuau1 1200 # clear display printf '\115\015' > /dev/cuau1 sleep 1 # turn on display printf '\115\136\001' > /dev/cuau1 sleep 1 # print hostname on line 1 printf '\115\014\000 '$NAME > /dev/cuau1 sleep 1 # print message on line 2 printf '\115\014\001 System Booting' > /dev/cuau1 It seems there might be a bug in the icp_a106 driver Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Could not open driver module /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/icp_a106.so: /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/icp_a106.so: Undefined symbol "ftime" There was a commit in 2019 that appears to have addressed the issue, but was never merged. https://github.com/lcdproc/lcdproc/commit/781b3113a592d75a29aa5024a94c2fd6b4592f87 Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20298 LCDd version 0.5.9 starting Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20298 Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666 Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Could not open driver module /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/icp_a106.so: /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/icp_a106.so: Undefined symbol "ftime" Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Driver [icp_a106] binding failed Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Could not load driver icp_a106 Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 There is no output driver Mar 2 13:13:11 LCDd 20455 Critical error while initializing, abort. Mar 2 13:13:12 php 20660 lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (0) Mar 2 13:13:13 php 20660 lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Connection refused (61) Mar 2 13:13:13 php 20660 lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (1) Mar 2 13:13:14 php 20660 lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Connection refused (61) Mar 2 13:13:14 php 20660 lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (2) Mar 2 13:13:15 php 20660 lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Connection refused (61) Mar 2 13:13:15 php 20660 lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (3) Mar 2 13:13:16 php 20660 lcdproc: Failed to connect to LCDd process Connection refused (61) Mar 2 13:13:16 php 20660 lcdproc: Too many errors, stopping client. UPDATE Submitted issue 211

Re: Installing pfSense on F5 BIG-IP 5050 Hi guys, so what you are looking for is the id "14e4" this is a plx for the network card .. In principle you need the NSL from Broadcom, you can find an open src "https://github.com/Broadcom-Switch/OpenNSL" You could look starting at linux-kernel-bde.. this is open ofc, but the F5/Arista/NetApp/ Other big vendors have the full pkg .. because you need an NDA .. and other things .. in the past was a little easy to get it .. now I don't know if you still can.

For everyone's info... I bought one of these, it has been working GREAT for me so far, week + https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C339KVH9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Right, if you are running iperf3 on pfSense you will always see a lower result because it's optimised as a router not a server. To see what it's capable of you need to test through it. So run the iperf server and client on two different devices connected to two separate interfaces in pfSense.

@Jarhead From the WEB GUI: I was able to move the WAN to the 2.5Gb igc0 interface. 1)First I disabled the WAN. 2)Then I reassigned the interface to igc0 3)Finally I reactivated the WAN I also did a system reboot [image: 1709229540254-aa288371-1db8-47b9-a9e1-e11795fe9b1d-image.png]