XG-7100 LACP on SFP+ ports?

Cylosoft

@stephenw10 Yup wrong thread.

nick.loenders

@stephenw10
I now have 10G gbic with fiber and connected them, but I still have "NO CARRIER"

I do have a switch with only 1G SFP, is that the problem? Or do I need to look elsewhere??

Nick

stephenw10

A lot of NIC/module combinations that are dual speed will only link at 1G if you force that speed in the interface settings.

nick.loenders

@stephenw10
Ok, but when I connect a netgear switch 1G with 1G gbic to a unifi 1G with 10G gbic , it works.

But when I connect the OPT port on the netgate 7100 which has a 10G gbit to any of those switches, I keep seeing NO CARRIER and no data is passed....

Where does it go wrong?

Does the Netgate only allow 10G to 10G connections ?

stephenw10

Are you using dual speed SFP modules? If so you probably need to set the link speed. You may also need to 'down/up' the interface, replug the module or reboot after making that change. The behaviour varies between modules. The ix0 and ix1 interfaces will link at 1G over fiber though.

Steve

nick.loenders

@stephenw10 I don't know about dual speed. It are these:

https://www.cbo-it.de/shop/bo35j856s3d_blueoptics_sfp-plus_transceiver_10gbase-sr_300m-en

In the OPT interface I can only choose 10 GBase...

So if these are only 10G , I can't tell???? , then, you mean it will not work on a 1Gbase speed switch?

stephenw10

Hmm, try this. At the command line run ifconfig -vvm ix0, assuming the module is in ix0.

It will show you if it detects the module and what speeds the module reports it can run at.

I expect to see something like this if the module is capable:

[23.01-DEVELOPMENT][admin@7100.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -vvm ix1
ix1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	description: OPT2
	options=4e138bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,NOMAP>
	capabilities=4f53fbb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,NOMAP>
	ether 00:08:a2:0e:a5:92
	inet6 fe80::208:a2ff:fe0e:a592%ix1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier
	supported media:
		media autoselect
		media 1000baseSX
		media 10Gbase-SR
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	plugged: SFP/SFP+/SFP28 10G Base-SR (LC)
	vendor: FINISAR CORP. PN: FTLX8571D3BCV-CK SN: ANL1C1V DATE: 2012-11-21
	module temperature: 32.27 C voltage: 3.31 Volts
	lane 1: RX power: 0.00 mW (-inf dBm) TX bias: 8.50 mA

nick.loenders

@stephenw10 said in XG-7100 LACP on SFP+ ports?:

ifconfig -vvm ix0

I get
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
supported media:
media autoselect
media 10Gbase-SR
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
plugged: SFP/SFP+/SFP28 10G Base-SR (LC)
vendor: Arista Networks PN: SFP10G-SR-AR SN: BOARB19E0199 DATE: 2022-06-18

Same as I could pick at the interface gui....
Strange is the 10G gbic in the unifi DOES work at 1G. These gbics are the same model, just the compatibility chip inside is different

stephenw10

If it can link using autoselect then it will but in many cases pfSense requires setting 1G and it appears that module doesn't allow that.
The only other thing you can do here is to try setting 1G as the only advertised link speed for auto-select:

[23.01-DEVELOPMENT][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl dev.ix.0.advertise_speed=2
dev.ix.1.advertise_speed: 0 -> 2

But that can only be set on 'multispeed fiber media types' which yours may not be seen as.

The value 2 there indicates 1G:

Control advertised link speed using these flags:
	0x1 - advertise 100M
	0x2 - advertise 1G
	0x4 - advertise 10G
	0x8 - advertise 10M

Steve

nick.loenders

@stephenw10

Ok, I got:

stephenw10

Mmm, unfortunately that's what I suspected since your module does not present a 1G link rate as available. I can only really suggest you try a different module. A 1G module should work fine there.

Steve