New firewall with 10Gbit Asus XG-C100C, help needed.

KOM

So my question is, can I, and if so, how, install the drivers myself?

Well, you can certainly try. However, not too many people have has success trying to install Windows or Linux drivers under FreeBSD.

A better solution would be to consult the FreeBSD supported hardware guide, and get a pair of 10G NICs that are supported by FreeBSD.

Turranius

@KOM:

A better solution would be to consult the FreeBSD supported hardware guide, and get a pair of 10G NICs that are supported by FreeBSD.

Crap. Not really the answer I was hoping for =) Very hard to find 10Gbit NICs at a fair price it seems.

KOM

Chelsio, SolarFlare, Intel, Neterion, Myricom and qLogic (and 3rd-party cards that use the same chipsets) appear to be your only choices.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html#ethernet

Turranius

Having a hard time understanding just what cards the list in the URL relates to. Would something like this work out of the box you think?

X540 chipset

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-X540-T2-10G-Dual-RJ45-Ports-PCI-Express-Ethernet-Converged-Network-Adapter-/122370953362

NogBadTheBad

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=127829.0

Turranius

Thanks. Staying away from that one then =)

Managed to get my Asus XG-C100C working in Fedora 27 Server out of the box, so I'll just use networkd for that for a bit while I wait for a better network card.

Found a QLOGIC 57810 dual-port 10GB Base-T (RJ-45) but its going to take a while to get here.

Thanks again for all your help / tips. Seems FreeBSD needs to get with the times! =)

maverick_slo

I did it the other way around.
Got 10Gb card on my Hyper-v then assigned it to virtual pfSense :)

Turranius

Just to close this thread, got the "QLOGIC 57810 dual-port 10GB Base-T (RJ-45)" installed today and it works beautifully! So now I'm back to pfsense =)

Thanks for the help once again.

SammyWoo

So what's the monthly for 10G service? who ISP?

Turranius

Bahnhof is the ISP.

298 SKR (~30 EUR) a month for 6 months. After that 498 (I think it was) SKR (~50 EUR) a month.

SammyWoo

They must be laying a bunch of new fiber. Consumer gigabit, once the exclusive domain of Google, seems now everywhere.

jahonix

Shut up. ;D
He's even getting 10Gbps fiber for a ridiculous price.

In the office I don't get fiber at all. Best we can have is 25/5 VDSL which only links at 20 Mbps max.
And when we switch to All-IP, which we have to in June 2018, we will get a whopping 16Mbps ADSL only. :-[

So I'm probably not located in "everywhere" on your map. ;)

Turranius

Well, I am in Sweden, so that might be a reason. There are more fiber here than blonde girls…