Gigabyte H170N WiFi LGA1151 DDR4 mITX (Dual Intel GbE LAN)
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ipfire works fine, sees both NICs.
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I have this board with an addon quad intel nic and all ports work since 2.3
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I have this board with an addon quad intel nic and all ports work since 2.3
Thanks. I have this working just fine with ipfire, but pfsense is a no go. I'm at a total loss as to why.
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that is weird. I know the one network card wasn't supported pre 2.3 but ever since that upgrade, it has worked flawlessly.
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that is weird. I know the one network card wasn't supported pre 2.3 but ever since that upgrade, it has worked flawlessly.
Yeah, I am also posting in the other thread (sorry to the mods) and I am using the latest BIOS version for the motherboard. No idea why pf won't work but ipfire does.
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This is weird, maybe there is a hardware rev change on your board that our older boards don't have? My boards are still running a bios or 2 old and that may be it or a bios setting perhaps? You could also try finding a 2.3.0 release install and try that. Maybe the new release install is at fault as I have only been doing the dashboard updates and have not done a full install since 2.3.0. Something must be different.
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Tucansam, have you resolved your issue? I am looking at building a similar setup and these NIC issues are troublesome as most of the skylake boards with dual NICs come with this chip as the secondary.
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I am also considering getting this mobo.
Has anyone installed pfSense on a PCIe M.2 SSD with this board.
I'm looking to do this, however I'd like to install ESXi on the M.2 SSD, then install pfSense in a VM.
Thanks!
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I am also considering getting this mobo.
Has anyone installed pfSense on a PCIe M.2 SSD with this board.
I'm looking to do this, however I'd like to install ESXi on the M.2 SSD, then install pfSense in a VM.
Thanks!
given that setup I don't see why not but I have had esxi in the past and sometimes it can be very particular about NIC's or even the motherboard in somecases. I noticed if you're going to do a virtual lab supermicro boards are supported a little better by esxi in general.
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Considering this GIGABYTE as well as one ASRock alternative (if going with strategy of getting Mini ITX board w/ two onboard NICs). There are also Supermicros of course. It seems to me that @xman111 says its working on pfSense 2.3+ "flawlessly" (out of box?). So does it?
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GIGABYTE GA-H170N-WIFI (Mini ITX)
LGA1151, 2x DDR4 DIMMs
1 x Intel I219V
1 x Intel I211AT
1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slot (nice to have opt for future ports)
1 x M.2 Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 SATA & PCIe x4/x2/x1 SSD support (nice for super compact build & fast disk I/O)
1 x M.2 Socket 1 for onboard WiFi module (nice to have, but not critical - may or may not work, does not matter as WiFi would be done by refitting existing WiFi router(s) as access points (OpenWRT/DD-WRT))Current stable pfSense release 2.3.2-p1 is FreeBSD 10.3 based.
FreeBSD (11.0) supported devices https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html lists NICs used on MOBO
- i211
FreeBSD 10.3 supported devices https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html lists NICs used on MOBO
- none
Then again FreeNAS 9.10 release, that is based on FreeBSD 10.3 explicitly says (http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-910-released/) that there is I219-V & I219-LM Gigabit Ethernet controller support which I presume comes out of base (FreeBSD), not that they have modded into FreeNAS "fork", and FreeBSD hardware support page is just not complete?
Thus is it correct to say that pfSense 2.3.2+, that is based on FreeBSD 10.3 will support
- i211 (I211AT)
- i219 (I219V)
out of box?
If so, then I211AT should be used for the least traffic intensive NIC (in my case that would be WAN) or vice versa?
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There is another contestant in the same price group (4 EUR difference)
ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac (Mini ITX)
LGA1151, 2x DDR4 DIMMs
1 x Giga PHY Intel I219V
1 x GigaLAN Intel I211V
1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slot (nice to have opt for future ports)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slot
(note, no M.2 SSD support though)
(note, no onboard out of box WiFi probable solution)
Which leads to question (if I219V is working as both MOBOs have it) which i211 case is better:
I211AT (as found in Gigabyte)
I211V (as found in ASRock)Thanks!
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The V NIC is integrated into the chipset, the AT is a standalone part. The 219 is more advanced than the 211, but I don't know that freebsd actually implements all the stuff that's different. I wouldn't expect a huge difference in performance, with the 219 having slightly lower cpu utilization.
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Yeah, I went through both 211 and 219 datasheets and product brief PDFs. Hard to compare as the way the documentation is structured for both (tables with features et al.) differ.
219 says something like
The Intel
Ethernet Connection I219 includes advanced interrupt-handling features to reduce CPU overheard. Other performance-enhancing features include offloading TCP/UDP (for both IPv4 and IPv6) checksum calculations and performing TCP segmentation. Advanced features such as Jumbo Frame support for extra-large packets and Receive Side Scaling (RSS) are also supported.But then again so does 211 in their "Stateless Offloads and Performance Features".
So for me I don't see any difference, I can only assume that the fact that I211 was launched in Q4'12 (4 years ago) and I219 Q2'15 (2 years ago) makes the latter better :)
Anyways @VAMike - so your answer kind of suggests (by not stating otherwise) that both families I211-x and I219-x will definitely work with pfSense 2.3+ out of box?
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I think there is no important differences in any of the 121x intel nic's.
I think they only bump the model number for marketing reasons.
So e.g. on my haswell motherboard I have a 1217 nic, but skylake boards have the 1219 nic, so it must mean its better right? :)