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

Turranius

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…