X520 errors in 2.6 and 22.01?
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With a VM i compiled the latest driver ("if_ix.ko" ver3.3.29) for freebsd 12.3 and I put it in the pfsense, but I got nothing!
Any idea?
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I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but it looks like there were several updates made to the Intel drivers in FreeBSD 12.3 (look under Drives):
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/relnotes/
The issue might be upstream from pfSense.
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@stephenw10 said in X520 errors in 2.6 and 22.01?:
Like it didn't disable it or just didn't change the error count?
^?
Does it show your new driver was correctly loaded at boot? If not does it show an error?
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The driver is loaded correctly. I think the driver is not the real problem. If it can help, my switch is a hp/aruba JL261A. In the next few days I will try to install some fiber optic transceivers. -
@cescofs said in X520 errors in 2.6 and 22.01?:
I tried to disable "Hardware Checksum Offloading" but it didn't work.
It didn't get disabled or it didn't affect the error count?
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@stephenw10 Can't speak for @cescofs but all that stuff is disabled on my end:
My error count is relatively small at 1105 with 5 days of uptime and passing through 464GiB of data but it's still higher than the 0 on 2.5.2
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Mmm, that's a very small number really though. That would not concern me.
Is that still rising? That could all have been when the interface came up for example.Steve
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@stephenw10
After disabling it, the errors were still there.
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@stephenw10 right after booting i had 83 errors. The current count grew a little every day for the last 5 days.
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@tom-ato
it's the same for me -
I found this ....
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Do you actually see the new driver loaded though:
[22.01-RELEASE][admin@6100-2.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl dev.ix.0.iflib.driver_version dev.ix.0.iflib.driver_version: 4.0.1-k -
no. to find a solution I downloaded the latest version from the intel site for freebsd -
Ok, so it did load and you are still seeing the errors reported by the latest Intel driver.
So maybe that is the correct count and in fact the driver in 2.5.2 was misreporting them.
Steve
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@stephenw10
it's hard to admit ... -
@stephenw10
do you have any idea how to solve? it's very strange only "errors in" -
@stephenw10 That is a very real possibility. I'm fine with that answer if it is indeed what is happening.
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@cescofs said in X520 errors in 2.6 and 22.01?:
@stephenw10
it's hard to admit ...pfSense does nothing with the MAC stats, the driver updates them directly.
You could try the alternative driver in 2.5.2.Steve
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Something must have happened with 2.6. Anyway, I connected the pfsense directly to my pc and.....zero errors!!!!
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Ah, interesting. So before it was via a switch? I wonder what's different there then. Something enabled on that port? Flowcontrol mismatch maybe?
