@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

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@Unoptanio

Its a big Machine 👍

@robsonvitorm
First off, to be hyper specific, for my tests HW is a Lenovo m720q with a AJ??929 x8 Riser Adapter and an HP/HPE 331T (Broadcom 5719 4 port)
pfSense on Bare Metal = All 4 Ports work as expected, no PHY error on boot.
pfSense on ProxMox VE 8.1 (Debian based OS) = All 4 ports work as expected, Intel_IOMMU enabled in Grub
pfSense on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Debian based OS) = Only bge0 works, bge1 fails to init. Intel_IOMMU and MSR enabled in Grub

Intel_IOMMU:
Edit /etc/default/grub
Append GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT with additional "intel_iommu=on" at the end.

MSRs:
Edit /etc/default/grub
Append GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT with additional "kvm.ignore_msrs=1" at the end.

After either change:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

On the Ubuntu Host, I also blacklisted the bge drivers so the Bare Metal Ubuntu did not load them and attach to the NIC Ports:
EDIT/Create: /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf
blacklist tg3
options vfio-pci ids=14e4:1657
# Prevent Broadcom bg3 driver from loading in Bare Metal OS - keep card ports free for VM passthrough
Then push changes to initram: sudo update-initramfs -u
This step did not seem to be needed with Proxmox.

These mods to the OS came from a thread I found on GPU passthrough, which I adapted for NIC passthrough:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1406888/ubuntu-22-04-gpu-passthrough-qemu
(Though I just noticed that I did not do Step 14, so will have to swap that drive back in and see if it makes any difference)

-Casper

I mean....anything is possible. 😉

That's intended to be a Plus feature though so it's not something I can help you with.

I have a buddy who used to write Linux drivers for a big company, though not sure how much he knows about BSD.
I might hit him up in a few days if I can't figure it out.

If pfSense somehow supported Docker/Podman this would be a non issue, but since it's BSD kernel I don't see that happening.

Always good to details efforts in an edge case. Someone else will be trying this. 😉

Yes: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/blob/RELENG_2_7_2/sys/dev/igc/igc_hw.h#L26

Steve

I was also looking at trying on that hardware the other week, but I could not find any information on the hardware other than the CPU.

I have taken the smaller Sophos units to bits in the past and it seems the hardware changes quite dramatically between hardware releases.

Any chances of some photos as you go?

Thanks

@Evan-0 said in SK110C6L - 1 LAN not working:

the others work fine even if I have 'no carrier' on the igb5 port.

That's very odd. Hard to see how that could work and also report no carrier.

So you just connected directly to each port from a laptop?

If the issue was the bypass relays I'd expect them to always work in pairs. So with the relays inactive ports 4 and 5 would be joined together and not linked to the internal NICs igb4 and igb5.
Did you see that when setting them with the jumpers?

I'd first try swapping the NIC assignments to be sure the port on the NIC is good.

Then I would try setting it to 1G fixed link speed and see if it comes up as that. This 'feels' like a link negotiation problem.

That NIC might support N-baseT so you could try linking it to one of the 2.5G ports.

Steve

Yup they should work fine for that.

Only one config index then.

So the choices here are either try to make some permanent config change in another OS. Or try to modeswitch the modem into some other mode we can control. idVendor = 0x12d1 idProduct = 0x155e is probably a known device so I'd check the usb_modeswitch forums first for reports of success. Or any reports of that device here under a different name.

@GabrieleMax said in IBM System x3550 M2:

@stephenw10

Tomorrow when I'll come to the office I'll remove two of the fours disks and I'll re-install PfSense in ZFS mode, I prefer to remove the hardware which I don't need to take care them in a drawer!

Let’s put my 5c on this:

x3550 M2 are old, but sufficient machine for pfSense, especially You give them 2 x Xeon X5690 (same stepping and version! + GREAT thermal grease!) and 24Gb of 1.333 ECC RAM (Hynix, Micron, Nanya…) AND switch OFF ALL unused hardware (except DVD/CD) and COM port sharing/redirects;

not forgot to FW update ALL (IMM -> uEFI -> DSA -> RAID -> backplane -> HDD -> onboard NIC) from IBM Support web System x3550 M2, 7978
FW UPDATE ARE IMPORTANT!

And better to replace HDD on SSD (better to set 2 in mirror as system and other 2 in mirror as for system logs exclusively).

And this hoarse able to grinding 5Gb traffic with Suricata/Snort + bunch of FW rules, VPNs and shapers… ;)

You may sure that this x3550 m2 working for You next 5-8+ years.
(Just buy 1 x EXTRA PSU (power supply unit) for hot-spare change if one of old would die because capacitors die.)

I assume you mean 6100?

Yes Squid and Squidguard will very likely be deprecated at some point and that's what you would use for actual content filtering.

You can use DNS based filtering though, so domain filtering.

Steve