Intel X710-T4L Not Supporting 2.5G or 5G

[vgarber]

Trying to get my intel nic working with my at&t modem. The modem has a 5G port, and I have a X710-T4L, so I should be able to negotiate at 5G. But ifconfig -m ixl0 reports

 ixl0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=4e100bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
        capabilities=4f507bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
        ether b4:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%ixl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 10Gbase-T
                media 1000baseT
                media 100baseTX
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

What am I doing wrong here?

I have tried to force 2.5G and 5G on the router side. But no dice.

[stephenw10]

Might need a newer firmware. Which pfSense version are you using?

[vgarber]

@stephenw10

2.7.2-RELEASE. Probably need a firmware upgrade; just not sure of the steps. Is this what I would need to grab https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18190/non-volatile-memory-nvm-update-utility-for-intel-ethernet-network-adapter-700-series.html and a linux bootable image?

[stephenw10]

Shouldn't need to be that new. I'd only expect a problem if it's really ancient. Check the output of sysctl dev.ixl.0 the firmware version should be shown there.

[vgarber]

@stephenw10

dev.ixl.0.fw_version: fw 8.84.67010 api 1.14 nvm 8.40 etid 8000b1f6 oem 20.5120.13

[stephenw10]

Hmm, that doesn't seem that old. Have you seen that NIC connect at 2.5G or 5G at all? In some other OS or host perhaps?

[DBayPlaya2k3]

I have a feeling it's because you have a x710-t4 instead of a x710-t4L .

Only the T4L supports multi gig speeds.

I also recently ran into this. I had the two port version which works at multi gig and wanted a 4 port card for future expansion so I purchased one. It just like you did not link up at 2.5gbs in my case and when I investigated (since I knew my 2 port card did) I learned it was because I didn't purchase the "L" variant.

[stephenw10]

Hmm, that would be interesting. Is it reported anywhere? Different PCI ID?