I would be looking for something Intel X5xx based. Checkout this list of equivalent OEM parts: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/ Steve

Hi everyone, just wanted to update you on the troubled Intel NIC, I returned it, ordered this Intel E1G44HTBLK Server Adapter I340-T4 (Bulk Pack) 10/100/1000Mbps PCI-Express 2.0 4 x RJ45 from newegg and works as expected.

I understand. I would still try to disable it in ediag just so you don't have to maintain the driver yourself or struggle with upgrades. Steve

Right, i also wanted to learn how to update drivers in case i will have problems in the future but for now i will leave it like it is and see how it works, thanks for your help

@wesleylc1 Thank you for sharing /Bingo

The SG-2440 should pass traffic at (or close to) gigabit line rate for firewall and NAT in ideal conditions. Usual caveats apply of course. However it cannot do that for a PPPoE connection because of the single NIC queue restriction that applies there. Setting net.isr.dispatch=deferred can help a lot in that situation though. See: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.html#pppoe-with-multi-queue-nics Steve

@cbarbie FIOS used to use PPPoE in some locations, they've mostly gotten rid of it

@soder said in Gigabit PPPoE and Intel Drivers: @VAMike Of course if the CPU in said low performance router cannot keep up with the gbit PPPoE traffic, it is very unlikely that buying a 700-series card financially makes sense. So its only about theory.. Either I'm misunderstanding you or you're misunderstanding me. I was not talking about dropping a 700-series card into a low powered device to improve PPPoE performance.

@stephenw10 Thanks for confirmation!

I understand, so I look for some devices designed for this purpose :) thank you very much for your answer

That's using a Netburst Xeon right? It's not going to be fast. I don't have much to compare it with but waaay back when I was running a P4 2.8 it was good for ~300Mbps. I would expect that pass 400Mbps using firewall and NAT only but maybe not much more. Try it and see. Steve

Thank you Steve I will try to do some more tests, maybe talk to SuperMicro representatives

After running the kldstat command it turns out the module is not running, however when I attempt to run it, it gives me back an error saying to check the dmesg, after checking, it says "KLD if_atlantic.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch" followed by "linker_load_file: Unsupported file type" I'm not sure if I do not have the driver installed for the correct version of FreeBSD, I may have accidentally installed the one for FreeBSD 12, I will have to check later in the week however I will be unable to access the firewall for a few days.

Need to know the PCI IDs for that card to know for sure. x710 based cards in general work in 2.4.5p1, I have one here: [2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@7100.stevew.lan]/root: pciconf -lv ixl0 ixl0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02581374 chip=0x15728086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+' class = network subclass = ethernet Steve

Oh, thanks

@solidname said in Looking for SFP card with 100baseTX autonegotioation support: I think I will get a SFP to ethernet media converter.

It depends what you want to achieve. For educational purposes building your own device is a good choice. In terms of supporting the development of the project purchasing a device from us is better.

You will easily hit 500/500 Mbps over OpenVPN. I only have 500/500 from my ISP, so i can't test and see if the VPN goes higher.