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    LAN Speed not reflecting Correctly

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Run at the command line: ifconfig -vvm ixl2

      What media speeds does it claim to support?

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        smh410 @stephenw10
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        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
        media autoselect
        media 10Gbase-T
        media 1000baseT

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          smh410 @smh410
          last edited by

          FWIW - i did a speed test from console as and getting the below so it's definately getting the faster speed at the WAN level.

          Hosted by Clouvider Ltd (New York, NY) [30.16 km]: 5.337 ms
          Testing download speed................................................................................
          Download: 1348.46 Mbit/s
          Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
          Upload: 408.32 Mbit/s

          if it ends up being the NIC's firmware, I might just upgrade to a 10gb Switch with multi gig support and repurpose the old one and that should work as well.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            It could well be the firmware. But also could be the driver. What pfSense version is that?

            Either way it cannot report anything other than the available speeds list. Even if it's actually linked at 2.5G. Though the device it's linked to should report the correct speed if it is.

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              smh410 @stephenw10
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              2.7.2-RELEASE (amd64)
              built on Mon Mar 4 19:53:00 UTC 2024
              FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by stephenw10

                Mmm, the driver code appears to be in that if the NIC/firmware supports it:
                https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/abf774528d7e497460510b0026db85e30f054142

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                  smh410 @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  Yup. Assuming no simple way to update the firmware, and beyond the scope of my expertise. Don’t want to risk bricking it. I’ll see if the new switch allows for the full bandwidth from my ISP and maybe revisit in the future.

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                    smh410 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10

                    did some more digging. Looks like it's just dell crippling the card.

                    Is something like this possible within pfsense console?

                    https://forum.level1techs.com/t/crossflashing-intel-official-firmware-on-dell-lenovo-pcie-x710-da2-nics-solved/196357/11

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Not from pfSense directly. There might be FreeBSD utils for it but I would just boot Linux to do it as shown there.

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                        smh410 @stephenw10
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                        got it, so dual boot from the same box and make the changes in linux? assuming no remote way to do this.

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Even if it were possible to do remotely I would want to be local to do it. You may need to power cycle the device.

                          But, yes, I would just boot a live Linux image from USB and try to run the firmware update from there.

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                            smh410 @stephenw10
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                            Got it. Thanks so much for the help!

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