Altq with VGE Driver

cmb

I wasn't exactly the bearer of great news, but at least you know now. :)

mamruoc

A little late, but have just bought an VIA Fanless thingy.

I planned to use the internal NIC (vge) with an PCI Intel PRO/1000 (em).

I was surprised that you have not patched the vge driver to support ALTQ!

I have collected some links so you can read that ALTQ patch has been done and has found its way into the kernel driver. Hope you can patch the kernel too!

If you need help for this, I will gladly help, but please help me by pushing me to the correct direction!

http://blogs.freebsdish.org/brueffer/2007/05/21/news-from-the-altq4-front/
http://www.iphouse.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?altq+4 (For FreeBSD 6.2, look at date: May 12, 2007)
http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/6-STABLE/relnotes-i386.txt (search for vge, first hit will tell you: "The vge(4) driver now supports altq(4).")

My current installation:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD pfsense 6.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0: Wed Nov 7 18:38:17 EST 2007 sullrich@builder6.pfsense.com:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense.6 i386

I really hope you can patch the driver, or help me help the project :)

Thanks for a great project!

mamruoc

Bump!

In hope of any kind of feedback, will this be doable?
I would love to come back to pfSense, but the lack of ALTQ support in VGE driver keeps me away :(

Mamruoc

eri--

I will make sure that this goes in for 1.3 can you please open a ticket about this and assign it to me?!

If you want to try it with pfSense 1.2 edit /etc/inc/interfaces.inc and add to the list vge.

Hope it helps.

mamruoc

To be sure…

Editing the file will make vge with altq patch available?

The vge driver works fine but the QoS is not supported.

hoba

It will only allow the gui to treat the vge interface as alq compatible interface and not throw a warning when you run the shaper. You still need a vge driver version that supports altq.

mamruoc

Ok,

Need the QoS so I guess I'll have to wait for 1.3 Beta 1…

Any timeline for that release... hope

Mamruoc

hoba

We just released 1.2 last night/today so you shouldn't ask for a 1.3 beta yet ;-)

mamruoc

Hihi, congrats!
I was a very happy pfSense user until I bought a fanless VIA mini-itx chipset.

I'm using zeroshell right now, but can't wait coming back to pfSense with QoS support.

sullrich

1.3 beta will be coming very very soon. Keep your eyes peeled.

VincentV

I second you on this request.

@mamruoc:

Bump!

In hope of any kind of feedback, will this be doable?
I would love to come back to pfSense, but the lack of ALTQ support in VGE driver keeps me away :(

Mamruoc

sullrich

@VincentV:

I second you on this request.

Good! You can also be one of our guinea pigs :)

mamruoc

I see the 1.2.1 RC1 is released.
Seems like you guys have moved on to FreeBSD 7.0.

Does that mean that the vge driver now have ALTQ support?

Mamruoc

cmb

@mamruoc:

I see the 1.2.1 RC1 is released.
Seems like you guys have moved on to FreeBSD 7.0.

Does that mean that the vge driver now have ALTQ support?

Yes.

mamruoc

Ah… finally! :D

Thanks alot!

mamruoc

Hmrf,

I gave pfSense 1.2.1 RC2 a shot.
My Intel Pro Gt 1000 was detected just fine as an em0 device, but the internal VIA gigabit nic was detected but NOT enabled:

vge0: <via networking="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xf800-0xf8ff mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 18 at device 14.0 on pci0
vge0: MII read timed out
vge0: failed to start MII autopoll
vge0: MII without any phy!
device_attach: vge0 attach returned 6

So, what to do next?

PS: Filled a ticket: http://cvstrac.pfsense.org/tktview?tn=1834</via>