Bce and igb drivers
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There are problems with network drivers bce and igb for FreeBSD 8.1 and it has affected the pfsense 2.0. Is there any chance to backport these drivers from freebsd 8.2 to pfsense 2.0?
Many servers use these new drivers. HP servers and motherboards Intel Xeon are a good example.
I think this may be bad for the project.Congratulations to the project and I am very happy with pfsense. :)
Gondim
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We tried to import a new driver once a month or so ago and it was worse - it completely broke bce for several people.
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We have the same problem. Now we are using PFSense 1.2.3 on our Dell server. It works, but not good enough. For example, the negotiation of speed doesn't work. When a gigabit switch is connected, PFSense switches to 10Mb. I have to force the switch to use gigabit.
Also, when upgrading to 2.0, everything is very slow or it doesn't work at all. I hope the BCE drivers will work soon in 2.0.
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The current bce driver does work for a lot of people, but others (perhaps just certain chips… mainly Dell servers) have issues. As I said before, we tried to import a newer bce driver and it broke for everyone.
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Where can I find when a new driver for the bce cards is available? Who is actually making this drivers? The FreeBSD guys or Dell?
Has somebody tested the trick mentioned on http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards for the BCE cards? -
The driver is from FreeBSD, iirc. Not sure if Dell/Broadcom actually contribute much at all.
The tricks I put on that wiki page have stabilized the cards for most people I've worked with that have bce.
