The SuperMicro Quad 10GbE card (AOC-STG-b4S) and pfSense…
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Hello All,
I am putting together a 10GbE class Supermicro based FW/PF/DNS/OpenVPN device with pfSense.
I will be using the Supermicro Quad 10GbE SFP+ card and was wondering if the GA release will accept and run with this card:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-STG-b4S.cfmAny clues or pointers greatly appreceated!
Cheers,
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That card is based on the Broadcom 57840 chipset. I can't find any evidence that this is supported in any version of FreeBSD, even the latest bleeding edge stuff. So I'm going to say definitely not under 2.0.X and almost certainly not under 2.1. Sorry.
Steve
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Steve, many thanks for your reply. As suspected.
I will go back to Supermicro and see if there is a chance they have a driver in the pipe for FreeBSD.
Fingers crossed.
Cheers,
///peoThat card is based on the Broadcom 57840 chipset. I can't find any evidence that this is supported in any version of FreeBSD, even the latest bleeding edge stuff. So I'm going to say definitely not under 2.0.X and almost certainly not under 2.1. Sorry.
Steve
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Steve,
As a follow up on this, and pardon my ignorance here, what exactly do I need to do to get support for this chipset in FreeBSD so that I may use the 10GbE card with pfSense? At this point it seems that anyone that are lookng for a 10GbE setup will have to abandon pfSense and look for a packet filter that runs on another OS? pfSense is the best filter (and o many other things) I have used, so I would really like to find a way to stay on this platform…
Any suggestions or pointers greatly appreciated.
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That card is based on the Broadcom 57840 chipset. I can't find any evidence that this is supported in any version of FreeBSD, even the latest bleeding edge stuff. So I'm going to say definitely not under 2.0.X and almost certainly not under 2.1. Sorry.
Steve
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Well you could get Broadcom to release a driver for FreeBSD, and it would have to be compatible with FreeBSD 8.3.
You could try to get support added to the bxe(4) driver which supports other Broadcom 10GbE cards.
You could write the driver yourself if you have the coding skillls.
There are plenty of other 10GbE Nics that do work with pfSense. Most people would recommend using Intel. See: ixgb(4) ixgbe(4)
Steve
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Hi Steve, thank you so much for your reply.
Short term I will go with Intel then just to avoid getting halted in my tracks, and settle with dual port 10GbE SFP+
I have a 1U server so in production I will need a quad port card, but for evaluation and for the 10GbE cluster to work with the pfSense GW
two ports will be fine.I found this card:
http://ark.intel.com/products/39776/Intel-Ethernet-Converged-Network-Adapter-X520-DA2It has the 82599ES controller not the 82598EB listed at the ixgbe(4)-link, would that be a problem you think?
FreeBSD 9 is listed among supported OS'es for this card:
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Windows Server 2012*, Windows 8*, Windows Server 2008 R2*, Windows 7*, Windows Server 2008* SP2, Windows Vista* SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2*, Windows Server 2003* SP2, Linux* Stable Kernel version 3.x, 2.6,x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5, 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 10, 11, FreeBSD 9*, , VMware ESX/ESXi*Close but no Cigar? :-)
Cheers,
///peoWell you could get Broadcom to release a driver for FreeBSD, and it would have to be compatible with FreeBSD 8.3.
You could try to get support added to the bxe(4) driver which supports other Broadcom 10GbE cards.
You could write the driver yourself if you have the coding skillls.
There are plenty of other 10GbE Nics that do work with pfSense. Most people would recommend using Intel. See: ixgb(4) ixgbe(4)
Steve
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The X520-DA2 is confirmed working under 2.1:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,57121.msg305005.html#msg305005I am not really the right person to comment on this, I've never tried a 10GbE card in pfSense.
Steve
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Steve, thank you for the pointer, I will let you know how this works out. ///peo
The X520-DA2 is confirmed working under 2.1:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,57121.msg305005.html#msg305005I am not really the right person to comment on this, I've never tried a 10GbE card in pfSense.
Steve
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The only thing I had to tune a bit was nmbclusters and queues as mentioned in the wiki to get X520-DA2 + 4 i350 running and recognized altogether.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_CardsAlthough I then followed Intel's recommendation for 10GBE nics which is a even higher nmbclusters number. I also tuned a bit the used queues, but that' about it.
(i.e. http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14688/eng/README.txt) -
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i use x520-DA2 cards in my freebsd file servers (zfsguru is on freebsd 9.1) and there i had to tweak some buffers as well, otherwise the link would not come up.
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=262144
Kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16=32000
Kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9=64000I got this info from: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=24723
