Intel Quad NIC not working in pfsense 2.1
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Do I understand that you want to use an 1155 Socket board for a firewall solution. Aint that a little overpowered??
Why don't you use something like an Intel D2500CCE Atom Mini-ITX Mainboard. It basically has everything that you need for a firewall solution.Lose two serial ports and DVI and gimme more gigabitz.
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Do I understand that you want to use an 1155 Socket board for a firewall solution. Aint that a little overpowered??
Why don't you use something like an Intel D2500CCE Atom Mini-ITX Mainboard. It basically has everything that you need for a firewall solution.Yeah, I know, but I always like to have some extra power, and also be a little future proof.
And I really HATE to have to give up on something…so now I want it to work more than ever...u know the feeling i'm sure :)
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I'm pretty sure about it, but IF it is home use, and you use a motherboard that has a slot has a pci Express X16 slot that could run a nice graphic card for gaming is a waste. If that slot would have been a pci slot then I COULD understand. But this is way too overpowered.
It is as if you use a tank to squash the fly.And this is no criticism, I do understand what you are saying very well. But you will NEVER meet the full computational requirements of the CPU in routing and firewalling.
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Do I understand that you want to use an 1155 Socket board for a firewall solution. Aint that a little overpowered??
Not necessarily at all.
There are many, many CPUs that can fit a socket 1155 motherboard from the most basic G1610 Celeron right up to a screaming quad core i7. That gives you a lot of flexibility and upgradability.
The Atom CPUs are great but there are plenty of scenarios where you will run of CPU power quickly. It's unlikely you'll more need more for a home broadband connection (unless you have Google fibre!) if you're using just firewall and NAT. If you need to run a VPN you may well have more WAN bandwidth than you can use. If you have several internal interfaces your traffic between them will be limited below gigabit wire speed.Steve
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I totally agree but look at the board, case principle of a firewall is to filter traffic on one interface and let it out on the other. This board has only 1 interface and no possibility to add another one. So how is it going to be usefull still stephenw10?
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It has a PCIe slot in which the subject of this thread, a quad port NIC, was intended to go. 5 interfaces total. Could also use VLAN interfaces as well. Seems reasonable to me. The fact that the NIC didn't work is unfortunate. ::)
Steve
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To the OP: have you got the quad port (39y6138) working with pfsense 2.1 yet???
Looking to get one on fleebay but I found this thread before I bought the controller so i'd like to know if it works..
Cheers!
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Oh yes, its working great. But not on any of the three lga1155 boards I have tested it on..its not recognised by the boards. But it's currently running perfectly fine on an older lga755 board.
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Oh yes, its working great. But not on any of the three lga1155 boards I have tested it on..its not recognised by the boards. But it's currently running perfectly fine on an older lga755 board.
It's been mentioned that newer motherboards with UEFI may be the cause for it.
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But one of the lga1155 boards, a Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3, did not have an UEFI bios…and still wouldn't recognise it...
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Having this same exact problem with my new setup. BIOSTAR NM70I-847 motherboard and an Intel 4 port NIC. Boards got a soldered on Celeron 847 w/ NM70 chipset, NIC is a Intel Pro/1000 PT. Any one else having this same problem?
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But one of the lga1155 boards, a Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3, did not have an UEFI bios…and still wouldn't recognise it...
That boards absolutely has an UEFI. All intel chipsets 6 series or later have UEFI.
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also having this problem - any potential solutions?
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But one of the lga1155 boards, a Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3, did not have an UEFI bios…and still wouldn't recognise it...
That boards absolutely has an UEFI. All intel chipsets 6 series or later have UEFI.
Oh, is that right. Okay, I did not know this. Thanks.
As a side note, I ended up getting a I350 T4 card from Ebay instead. Working great on my ASUS P8H77-I motherboard! :)
Regards
Tommy
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I probably should of checked before I went ebaying…
The Intel Pro/1000 PT QUAD PORT PCIe x4 card (Pro1000/T) seems to be having the same problems.
It does NOT appear to work in my SuperMicro X10SLL-F LGA1150 Xeon E3-1230v3 board.
It works perfectly in my Biostar Hi-fi A85W A10-6700 Board.
This is the card that has the 2 controllers with the PCIe bridge chip onboard.
This link also covers it pretty well: https://communities.intel.com/message/104432
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Hi folks,
if the cards must not be transporting to much traffic, Soekris is also offering a 4 GB LAN Port
NIC that is sufficient enough to handle, it is called Soekris lan1841, so it will be a low cost
solution. For greater installments it would be perhaps good to know that HotLava is also
offering MultiPort NICs based on Intel chip sets. -
Hi guys,
I have a "39Y6138" quad port pci card on an asus "p8h67-m pro" (latest BIOS installed) and the newest pfsense "2.2.2" only recognized two ports. I have tried many options at "/boot/loader.conf" (and "/boot/loader.conf.local" too) like:
hint.agp.0.disabled=1
hw.pci.realloc_bars=1Do you have another recommendation? Have you detected similar issue? Have you wokerd around?
As I could check, there is information about FreeBSD/Debian has updated em(4) driver and it's used in the latests versions of pfsense.
Thank you in advance.
Best,
@rofc