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    Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      'Trust' how? I have a card similar to that I bought from ebay. It shows up as an i225-V and works fine where I've used it.

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      • UnoptanioU
        Unoptanio @stephenw10
        last edited by Unoptanio

        @stephenw10

        Trust, in the sense that they really cost too little.
        Will they be rubbish?

        For the price they cost I'll give it a try

        pfSensePlus24.03 2U BareMetal Asrock Industrial IMB-X1314MicroATX
        CPU: i7-13700@5.2GHz, RAM:32GB ECC, n°2 Samsung 870EVO SATA 2.5” SSD 1TB (ZFS) Raid1
        n°3 Intel i225-LM 2500/1000/100Mbps, n°1 NIC Intel i350-T4V2 10/100/1000 Mbps 4*GLAN, n°1 Intel X520-DA2

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          The one I bought was deliberately the cheapest I could find! 😉 It reports as an i225-V.

          It works fine for the what I've used it for, which was mostly testing in a 7100.

          There is some speculation that the errors seen on i225/i226 are more likely on faster systems that can drive the NIC harder. I've seen no problems with either on the C3K systems we ship but if you look at the problem reports in Windows and Linux they are often in gaming rigs and similarly powerful machines. That is only speculation at this point.

          Steve

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          • w0wW
            w0w @Unoptanio
            last edited by

            @Unoptanio
            Intel does not produce NIC based on I225/i226 series chipsets AFAIK, but the chipset itself costs less than $5. So the price for the card based on this chipset does not look like “cheapest”, the price looks quite normal.

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            • RobbieTTR
              RobbieTT @w0w
              last edited by RobbieTT

              @w0w said in Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems:

              @Unoptanio
              Intel does not produce NIC based on I225/i226 series chipsets AFAIK, but the chipset itself costs less than $5. So the price for the card based on this chipset does not look like “cheapest”, the price looks quite normal.

              Well I'm still staggered you can get an i226 NIC for £8.98. Almost free!

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              ☕️

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                And it comes in stealth black with cool backlighting. 😁
                i225v_nic-2.jpg

                YMMV!

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                • RobbieTTR
                  RobbieTT @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10
                  If I bought the 2-port version would I get even more bling lights?

                  ☕️

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    I would assume 😉

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                    • RobbieTTR
                      RobbieTT @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10

                      Ordered the 2-port version. I'll be sure to post a photo if it has more bling... 😎

                      Glad my network rack lives in a cupboard.

                      ☕️

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                      • w0wW
                        w0w @RobbieTT
                        last edited by

                        @RobbieTT
                        Just remember those two/four port cards are coming with asmedia pcie hub/splitters, I suspect this can be the cause of some glitches I have had with 4 different variants.

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                        • RobbieTTR
                          RobbieTT @w0w
                          last edited by RobbieTT

                          @w0w said in Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems:

                          @RobbieTT
                          Just remember those two/four port cards are coming with asmedia pcie hub/splitters, I suspect this can be the cause of some glitches I have had with 4 different variants.

                          Ok, that does not sound great.

                          Switched the order to the single port version, just to be sure.

                          ☕️

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            But... the blinkenlights.

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                            • w0wW
                              w0w @RobbieTT
                              last edited by

                              @RobbieTT
                              For that value of money you can take both, just be ready 😁

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                              • RobbieTTR
                                RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                last edited by

                                @stephenw10 said in Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems:

                                But... the blinkenlights.

                                It is indeed a tragedy, in 3 parts.

                                I've not even ordered the new mini-server the card is aimed at. For whatever reason it has zero native multi-gig RJ45s but does have 4x1 GbE ports that I will never use. Not sure why they bother with them; waste of PCB space on a small server.

                                But the lights, the blue/green lights...

                                ☕️

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                                • UnoptanioU
                                  Unoptanio @RobbieTT
                                  last edited by Unoptanio

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                                  New product INTEL I226-T1

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                                  pfSensePlus24.03 2U BareMetal Asrock Industrial IMB-X1314MicroATX
                                  CPU: i7-13700@5.2GHz, RAM:32GB ECC, n°2 Samsung 870EVO SATA 2.5” SSD 1TB (ZFS) Raid1
                                  n°3 Intel i225-LM 2500/1000/100Mbps, n°1 NIC Intel i350-T4V2 10/100/1000 Mbps 4*GLAN, n°1 Intel X520-DA2

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    What are these pointing out exactly?

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                                    • RobbieTTR
                                      RobbieTT @stephenw10
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10 said in Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems:

                                      What are these pointing out exactly?

                                      I wondered the same thing.

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                                      • w0wW
                                        w0w
                                        last edited by

                                        I think it's all about that is Intel is released new 226 card. Looks like this is overpriced a bit 🤔, especially when you already have an Aliexpress variants...

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                                        • RobbieTTR
                                          RobbieTT @w0w
                                          last edited by

                                          @w0w said in Chinese I226-V on 23.05.1, problems:

                                          I think it's all about that is Intel is released new 226 card. Looks like this is overpriced a bit 🤔, especially when you already have an Aliexpress variants...

                                          So that card is a genuine Intel card?

                                          ☕️

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                                          • w0wW
                                            w0w @RobbieTT
                                            last edited by

                                            @RobbieTT
                                            Yep.
                                            So I made a mistake, claiming that Intel not released any 225/226 cards. Looks like it did already.

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