Silicom PEG6I Six Port Gigabit PCIE
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Any possibility you have the "bypass" variant of the card (PEG6BPi6) and it is operating in "bypass " mode (pairs of ports are internally linked so that traffic bypasses the host)? Apparently the PEG6BPi6 supports a variety of modes besides operating as a regular 6 port card see http://www.silicom-usa.com/Networking_Bypass_Adapters/PEG6BPi6-Six_Port_Copper_Gigabit_Ethernet_PCI_Express_Bypass_Server_Adapter_Intel_based_58
There is something "unusual" that your em0 is not receiving frames.
Hi, my card seems to be slightly different from a PEG6BPi6. (I have a "PEG6i".) I have never heard of a bypass mode and I'm not sure if my card offer this mode. I have to say, i had to format my pfsense box during the installation of the driver. Here's a new screenshot of the "mode" for em0, which is slightly different. (before it was in "9b" with <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>) But all other configuration are the same.
I will search how to remove the bypass mode. Thank you.</rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>
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It will be easy to tell if you have a card with by-pass capability. It will have a number of small relays on it. Those are the small white rectangular things in this picture of the card:
If it does have by-pass it can be super confusing.
Steve
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It will be easy to tell if you have a card with by-pass capability. It will have a number of small relays on it. Those are the small white rectangular things in this picture of the card:
If it does have by-pass it can be super confusing.
Steve
Hi Steve,
Here's a picture of my card. I do not see anything that suggest that my card supports "by-pass" function.
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I agree. That's a shame because it would have very nicely fit all your symptoms. ::)
Steve
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I agree. That's a shame because it would have very nicely fit all your symptoms. ::)
Steve
Well, i have to say that I have no idea what's going on with this…
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From your recent screenshot of ifconfig output it appears you reverted to pfSense 2.0-RC1. Why?
For problems like this I would be inclined to stick with the version of pfSense built on the most up-to-date version of FreeBSD (currently 2.1-BETA1) to increase the likelihood that a similar problem had been seen by someone else, reported and fixed. -
From your recent screenshot of ifconfig output it appears you reverted to pfSense 2.0-RC1. Why?
For problems like this I would be inclined to stick with the version of pfSense built on the most up-to-date version of FreeBSD (currently 2.1-BETA1) to increase the likelihood that a similar problem had been seen by someone else, reported and fixed.Hi, as I mentioned earlier, I had to format my pfsense box while I was trying to install the driver and I used a cd that I had nearby. But you are right, I should have used the newest version. I'll start it over once more with version 2.0.2.
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I just re-installed pfsense on version 2.0.2, re-installed the driver and I'm stuck with the same problem. It seems that pfsense can't "read" the packets he receive on em0. (The driver was built on freebsd 8.1, which is the same than pfsense 2.0.2)
Does anybody have another idea?
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Alright, since it looks like I'm going nowhere with this card I would like to know, could anybody recommend me any PCI Gigabit NIC(1 port)? Yesterday I tried a "StarTech ST1000BT32 Gigabit Ethernet Card 10/100/1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45" http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833114004CVF and it did not worked either.
I have decided to roll back to my old pfSense box with this board : MSI 865G Neo2P because it worked well for about 2 years. I need 2 gigabit port and only 2 pci (not pci-e) gigabit would do the job. Something with a minimum of configuration would be highly appreciated. (A nic that you plug and it works automatically. I do not wish to go through the same thing than with my silicom PEG6i.)
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Yesterday I tried a "StarTech ST1000BT32 Gigabit Ethernet Card 10/100/1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45" http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833114004CVF and it did not worked either.
In what way did it not work?
Considering the trouble you have already had I am reluctant to make any further suggestions until I know why the card didn't work. If the slot is broken changing cards won't help.
