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      tuyan
      last edited by

      Could you guys please test these ? I am seeing excessive mbuf usage on an R420, maybe i am missing something.

      http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip

      you need to extract the zip under from-8-STABLE directory, and add

      -p1from-8-STABLE/bge/if_bge.c.patch~
      -p1
      from-8-STABLE/bge/if_bgereg.h.patch~
      -p1from-8-STABLE/bge/mii_brgphy.c.patch~
      -p1
      from-8-STABLE/bge/pcireg.h.patch~
      -p1~~from-8-STABLE/bge/pcireg.h.2.patch~

      to patches.RELENG_8_3 file.

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        shikka
        last edited by

        Hi,

        sorry had some trouble with my build environment.

        The result:

        fresh boot:  16% (4182/25600)
        

        will report after a few tests.

        Thanks

        
        01 Hour 18% (4726/25600)
        ITEM                     SIZE     LIMIT      USED      FREE  REQUESTS  FAILURES
        mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1536,   226584,        0
        mbuf:                     256,        0,       12,     1279,   314311,        0
        mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3585,     1141,    27111,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,     6973,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0
        
        
        
        02 Hours: 18% (4726/25600)
        ITEM                     SIZE     LIMIT      USED      FREE  REQUESTS  FAILURES
        mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1536,   338428,        0
        mbuf:                     256,        0,       14,     1277,   429467,        0
        mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3585,     1141,    35477,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,     8797,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0
        
        
        
        5hour: 19% (4854/25600)
        mbuf_packet:              256,        0,     2048,     1664,   903442,        0
        mbuf:                     256,        0,       13,     1270,  1163233,        0
        mbuf_cluster:            2048,    25600,     3713,     1141,    75512,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_page:         4096,    12800,        0,      119,    11718,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_9k:           9216,     6400,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_jumbo_16k:         16384,     3200,        0,        0,        0,        0
        mbuf_ext_refcnt:            4,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0
        
        
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          tuyan
          last edited by

          Are you able to use all of the ports on the card ? On dell R420, I was having DMA timeouts up until patched the kernel to increase the ata request timeout.

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            shikka
            last edited by

            At the moment I use 3 ports without any DMA timeouts. Can try the 4th port tomorrow, when I have patched one more line.

            4 Ports no problems :-)
            mbuf is constant

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              tuyan
              last edited by

              Perfect. on my local tests, i see about 984Mbps of throughput on a single port wan. And ~1.94 Gbps on 2 ports bridged on the lan side.

              Ok. Is there any possibility to see what were the issues in operation with the previous backport? If we can verify those , i can send a pull request to repo for these patches.

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                shikka
                last edited by

                Sounds great.

                http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,63484.0.html

                Unfortunately I have no intel network card  to test.

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                  DJP
                  last edited by

                  Hello,

                  I'm interested to have a pfsense release with BCM5719 working. How can I do since the current release doesn't seems to be compatible ?

                  Thanks,
                  Regards,

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                    shikka
                    last edited by

                    Hi,
                    sorry for the delay. You can compile a pfsense iso with the diffs from tuyan (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip). Works for me.

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                      DJP
                      last edited by

                      Hi,

                      Is there a way to upload your compiled iso ? I don't have the environment to recompile the iso and i'm not sure how to do it :-(

                      I can provide an FTP or smth if you want…

                      Many thanks.

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                        shikka
                        last edited by

                        Have fun  :)

                        http://www.share-online.biz/dl/OQ4XR5YM8N3C

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                          DJP
                          last edited by

                          Hi Santa Shikka, :)

                          Oh many many thanks. I'll try this out asap !

                          Regards,

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                            BKAS2014
                            last edited by

                            Thank you very much for this image.

                            Now i can install pfsense on our Dell R320 Servers.

                            The only Problem i have, that i cant update to a snapshot version 2.1.1

                            I hope the broadcom drivers will be included in another release.

                            Kind Regards

                            Boris

                            PS.: Sorry for the poor English :-)

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                              fernandopsilveira
                              last edited by

                              Hi! I'm also having this issue with Broadcom BCM5719/BCM5720. I would like to try shikka's build, but link is broken.

                              Could someone please upload it again?  :D
                              Thank you!!

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                                charliem
                                last edited by

                                If you are experimenting, why not try a 2.2 alpha snapshot, and report any problems you have, rather than backporting a driver to 2.1.x?  FreeBSD 10.0 used in pfSense 2.2 should have the newer bge chipsets supported.

                                Also, even if someone does have the iso you referenced, a link to a user-compiled iso will not last long in this forum, given the recent crackdowns on pfSense development in the wild.

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                                  fernandopsilveira
                                  last edited by

                                  Unfortunatelly I'm stucked on pfSense 2.1 right now.  :-\

                                  It would be great if someone could at least republish tuyan's patches, since the given link (http://www.4inarow.net/pfsense/bge.zip) is broken…  :P

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                                    fernandopsilveira
                                    last edited by

                                    Finally!  :D
                                    I was able to build BCM5719/BCM5720 drivers (both 32-bit and 64-bit) using pfsense-tools RELENG_2_1 patches, no need for any additional patches. If someone need those drivers, just PM me ;)

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                                      mirage22
                                      last edited by

                                      I know this is off topic. But does this device support inline IPS?

                                      Also do you know where can I get updated firmware for this device.

                                      Thanks in advance!

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