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All your interfaces are ixl now though? If so that's expected. You might add the Realtek NIC as a management interface as that will remain up if/when you hit the ixl bug.
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So going through my graphs, everything "crashes" when the ixl0 and ixl1 starts having huge packet loss.
Does this confirm it is an issue with the x710-t2l? Could this nic be getting hot and causing this? Or do you think it is more related to the bug?
This would suck because that thing was hella expensive.
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How hot? Can you add a fan there as a test?
I'm not aware of heat being an issue with that bug but if it is that would be a very interesting discovery.
Steve
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I haven't put my heat gun to it yet so not sure if it is getting hot. I was just wondering if that was a known problem. I think I'll redo the thermal compound as well
I will take some readings here in a bit and install a noctua 40mm on it just in case.
Are the x550-t2 decent cards? Any known issues?
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@cgi2099 said in HP T730 help please:
Are the x550-t2 decent cards?
Yes. The x500 series are what I would recommend currently. In terms of price, performance and stability they are in the sweet spot IMO. That may change.
Steve
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Awesome, maybe I can find one of those reasonable somewhere.
I did see intel released new firmware for the x710 cards on the 8th but idk if that will fix any issues.
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Yup check the OEM equivalent list:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/Not seeing a firmware update newer than 8_40, does it have a change log?
Steve
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9.0 is what I think I see, but could be the wrong card:
I believe this is the changelog:
I am not sure what version my card has on it at the moment.
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Hmm, interesting. Not sure why I didn't find that. I can't see any specific mention of MDD though.
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I am going to update in the morning and I'll report back if anything improves.
I did as you said and the last time it crashed today I plugged into the realtek port and was still able to access the gui. So it is the Intel card crashing.
Temps were fine, 40-50*c is what my temp gun was saying. I am still going to put a fan on it also.
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My card was on 7.3 but with that said updating to 9.0 did not solve the issue, still getting the same error.
With that said is there a package for intel drivers 27.6? I believe that is the last thing I can do in hopes of getting this card to play nice.
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You could try that. It's quite an involved procedure though, you need to compile the driver on an equivalent FreeBSD box and move it across.
Alternatively you could try using the ixl kmod port: https://www.freshports.org/net/intel-ixl-kmod/
It's an older version but potentially easier.Steve
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I am having a hard time finding the download link on that page
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Do this:
[2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@cedev-6.stevew.lan]/root: pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All//intel-ixl-kmod-1.12.2.pkg Fetching intel-ixl-kmod-1.12.2.pkg: 100% 94 KiB 96.3kB/s 00:01 Installing intel-ixl-kmod-1.12.2... Extracting intel-ixl-kmod-1.12.2: 100% ===== Message from intel-ixl-kmod-1.12.2: -- THIS PACKAGE INSTALLS THE NEWER VERSION OF THE SOFTWARE WHICH CAN CAUSE SYSTEM INSTABILITY WHILE USED. USE THE UPDATED VERSION ONLY IF YOU EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS WITH THE DRIVER PRESENT IN THE KERNEL DISTRIBUTION Usage: To load the updated version of the driver add this: if_ixl_updated_load="YES" to your /boot/loader.conf and reboot the machine. There's no need to recompile the GENERIC kernel without if_ixl driver After the reboot you may see this kind of messaged in the dmesg: module_register: module pci/ixl already exists! Module pci/ixl failed to register: 17 This is the side effect of the newer version of the driver overriding the older one and can be safely disregarded [2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@cedev-6.stevew.lan]/root: echo 'if_ixl_updated_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.localSo both those commands.
Then reboot and check that it's loaded:[2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@cedev-6.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 30 0xffffffff80200000 3aed878 kernel 2 1 0xffffffff83cee000 5b680 if_ixl_updated.ko 3 1 0xffffffff83d4a000 16b18 if_atlantic.ko 4 1 0xffffffff83f19000 1000 cpuctl.ko 5 1 0xffffffff83f1a000 2698 intpm.ko 6 1 0xffffffff83f1d000 b40 smbus.ko 8 1 0xffffffff83f53000 11aa8 dummynet.ko 9 1 0xffffffff83f1e000 344f8 if_wg.koSteve
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Wish I would have left it alone lol.
After installing it would just boot loop,
I had to reinstall but now I get an error in the console:
Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/shI've reinstalled 3 times and it doesn't fix it.
Everything works in the web GUI and I am up and going.
But don't know what to do about the console
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Where is it failing in the boot?
It still does that after reinstalling 2.6 clean?
How did you install it originally?
Steve
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Ended up getting it fixed by flashing my old firmware and then upgrading. Was rather painless after that, installed my packages and did a config restore. I guess this x710 goes in the tech cabinet until there is a fix. Got an i350-4 ready to install tomorrow.
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@cgi2099 said in HP T730 help please:
@stephenw10
Ended up getting it fixed by flashing my old firmware and then upgrading. Was rather painless after that, installed my packages and did a config restore. I guess this x710 goes in the tech cabinet until there is a fix. Got an i350-4 ready to install tomorrow.For Fiber connection you could try out the Allied Telesis AT-29M2/SC M.2 module, it is nice cheap for something around ~$30 in the usa. So you will be having fiber and
copper based NICs. If they are supported by FreeBSD (pfSense) you will be able to set up one more network connection.
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