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      addosolutions
      last edited by

      Hello, I have a Cavium Inc CN6870C (CN6870C-210NV-M8-PR-G) dual 10GB NIC in my server and want to use it as a NIC for my pfSense box.

      Anyone have any ideas on how I could go about achieving that?

      pciconf -lv
      …
      none66@pci0:4:0:0:	class=0x0b3000 card=0x0001177d chip=0x0091177d rev=0x0a hdr=0x00
          vendor     = 'Cavium, Inc.'
          device     = 'Octeon II CN68XX Network Processor'
          class      = processor
      …
      

      Thanks!

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        The chances of getting that device working with pfSense are very low to zero I would think. Mostly because that's not really a NIC it's a CPU and as such requires everything that goes with that. An OS to run independently of pfSense.
        It may have that already but getting pfSense/FreeBSD to talk to it as a network interface would be a massive task.

        Steve

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