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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      It does not.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Or rather the ice driver is included but not ice_ddp.

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          jsone
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          thank you for the update despite the fact that the answer is a little disheartening

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            salexandrov @jsone
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            @jsone Nope. It has icee.ko only, however the "installer" image has ice_ddp.ko. Manually copied from installer ISO to /boot/kernel, reboot (of course), tunables "ice_ddp_load=YES" do not work, neither in /boot/loader.conf ... and soooo version mismatch. it doesn't not work ... sorry ... They use modified FreeBSD kernel, so it may not work if copy from FreeBSD mainstream ... didn't check, but here we go. Thank you.

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              salexandrov @jsone
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              @jsone switch to OPNSense ;)

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                louis2 @salexandrov
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                @salexandrov @jsone

                Just for info since I am checking ConnectX3 and ConnectX4 drivers (see another thread) I looked at the bootloader in the actual beta from pfSense+ hereby

                [25.03-BETA][admin@pfSense.lan]/root: more /boot/loader.conf
                kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
                kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
                kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
                kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000"
                kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9="524288"
                kern.ipc.nmbjumbop="524288"
                opensolaris_load="YES"
                zfs_load="YES"
                kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
                kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
                kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
                kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000"
                kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9="524288"
                kern.ipc.nmbjumbop="524288"
                opensolaris_load="YES"
                zfs_load="YES"
                kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
                kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
                cryptodev_load="YES"
                zfs_load="YES"
                loader_conf_files="/boot/loader.conf.lua"
                boot_serial="NO"
                autoboot_delay="3"
                debug.ddb.capture.bufsize="524288"
                hw.e6000sw.default_disabled=1
                hw.hn.vf_transparent="0"
                hw.hn.use_if_start="1"
                net.link.ifqmaxlen="128"
                machdep.hwpstate_pkg_ctrl="1"
                net.pf.states_hashsize="1048576"

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                  jsone
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                  out of love for pfsense and a strong desire to keep using pfsense, just floating the idea out here for the people at netgate, i know pfsense goal is to offer paid appliances and pro licenses, so i get the desire to not to put labor into making the free stuff super fast, but please consider e810 was released in 2020, thats roughly 5 years ago. some systems come with sfp28 instead of sfp10 ports and it would be really nice to have pfsense CE 2.8.x support 28gb hardware like this at at-least 10gb or its full capacity.

                  thank you for your consideration

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                    slu @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 said in Intel E810-C drivers:

                    Or rather the ice driver is included but not ice_ddp.

                    Is this something for pfsense+ only?
                    Or is there some technical issue behind?

                    pfSense Gold subscription

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      We do build it for Plus.

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                        slu @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10
                        😢

                        pfSense Gold subscription

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                          salexandrov @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 said in Intel E810-C drivers:

                          We do build it for Plus.

                          Come on ... you just need to add two lines into the kernel config file and build CE.

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                            louis2 @salexandrov
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                            @salexandrov

                            no idea in this special case .... however Netgate needs the plus edition to pay their staff ....

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                              jwt Netgate @salexandrov
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                              @salexandrov do you understand that this type of behavior reduces the chance of ice_so being included?

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                                jwt Netgate @jsone
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                                @jsone your post reduces to “everything I want must be free”, which I understand but I think you will agree, it’s not sustainable.

                                The “just run <other project>” response (tbc, not by you) basically just makes me want to walk away.

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                                  jsone
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                                  I dont think its too much to ask that 5 year old intel network cards be supported in both CE and PRO. I would hope that netgate would consider a reasonable suggestion to support the same underlying hardware in both CE and PRO. That said, I understand why netgate is heading this way with the pfsense project.

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                                    salexandrov @jsone
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                                    @jsone said in Intel E810-C drivers:

                                    I dont think its too much to ask that 5 year old intel network cards be supported in both CE and PRO. I would hope that netgate would consider a reasonable suggestion to support the same underlying hardware in both CE and PRO. That said, I understand why netgate is heading this way with the pfsense project.

                                    Well, they think E810 NICs are available for "business only". Not exactly true. And, by the way, PRO comes with paid support, CE - just DIY and rely on forums ... Don't understand what's the deal ...

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      It was originally removed when we trimmed back the number of modules we shipped because the images sizes were getting excessively large. We were shipping modules for all sorts of hardware that no-one was using. It was added back to Plus because we use the ice driver in the 8300.

                                      We should be able to re-asses this for the next point release.

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                                        louis2 @stephenw10
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                                        @stephenw10

                                        Would that also cover the x710?

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                                          w0w @louis2
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                                          @louis2 said in Intel E810-C drivers:

                                          x710

                                          What exactly you mean? x710 uses ixl driver, is not it?

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                            Indeed, X710 uses the ixl driver so is unaffected.

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