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    NIC Broadcom 57412 10Gb not recognized

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      Edouard Moreau @Edouard Moreau
      last edited by Edouard Moreau

      Well, I manage to get the 10Gb interfaces working, but not yet in a satisfactory way.

      I installed FreeBSD 11.2 on one server and like pfSense the 10Gb interfaces didn't show up after install. But the bnxt driver module was present in /boot/kernel and manual loading via 'kldload if_bnxt.ko' get all things up as intended.

      Back to pfSense 2.4.4, I couln't find the bnxt module to load. However copying /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko from FreeBSD to pfSense permit me to load it and get interfaces up. Finaly putting 'if_bnxt_load="YES"' in /boot/loader.conf.local made the module load on boot.

      That sure is a crude workaround, as I would prefer not having to manualy add a kernel module. I looked for a bnxt kernel driver or module if pfsense without success.

      Is there a way to force the bnxt driver shipped with pfSense to load ? If not, where is the recommanded location to place if_bnxt.ko for it to persist upon future upgrades ?

      Regards,

      Edouard

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      • GrimsonG
        Grimson Banned @Edouard Moreau
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        @edouard-moreau said in NIC Broadcom 57412 10Gb not recognized:

        If not, where is the recommanded location to place if_bnxt.ko for it to persist upon future upgrades ?

        Further upgrades will likely bump the FreeBSD version and as such will require a new matching kernel module anyway. So your best bet is to open a request on https://redmine.pfsense.org/ to have it included by default.

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          Edouard Moreau @Grimson
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          @grimson You're right. But this driver is supposed to already be part of pfSense, as Steve stated.

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          • GrimsonG
            Grimson Banned @Edouard Moreau
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            @edouard-moreau said in NIC Broadcom 57412 10Gb not recognized:

            @grimson You're right. But this driver is supposed to already be part of pfSense, as Steve stated.

            Then open a bug report on redmine.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by stephenw10

              Whilst the driver is in the codebase it does not look like it's being built:

              [2.4.5-DEVELOPMENT][admin@5100.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat -v | grep bnxt
[2.4.5-DEVELOPMENT][admin@5100.stevew.lan]/root:

              So, yes, open that as a feature request on redmine to get it added.

              Steve

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                Edouard Moreau
                last edited by

                Feature request created : https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9155

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                  rivest1000 @Edouard Moreau
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                  @Edouard-Moreau Can you please send me a link for the if_bnxt.ko driver? I having the same problem with Broadcom 57412 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+.

                  [2.4.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: dmesg | grep eth
                  pci6: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
                  pci6: <network, ethernet> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
                  pci6: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
                  pci6: <network, ethernet> at device 0.1 (no driver attached)

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by stephenw10

                    Get it from the FreeBSD 11.2 ISO image.

                    Comment on the feature request if it works for you.

                    Steve

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                      rivest1000 @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 I simply copied the file via scp and ran kldload ./if_bnxt.ko ; is that all I need to do? Do you mind sending instructions?

                      I do see it now with kldstat :

                      /root: kldstat -v | grep bnxt
                      3 1 0xffffffff83223000 15b38 if_bnxt.ko (./if_bnxt.ko)
                      659 pci/bnxt

                      just reboot?

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                        rivest1000 @rivest1000
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                        @rivest1000 Oh I guess I don't need a reboot :) :

                        bnxt0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=e527bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
                        ether b0:26:28:24:eb:e0
                        hwaddr b0:26:28:24:eb:e0
                        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>)
                        status: active
                        bnxt1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=e527bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
                        ether b0:26:28:24:eb:e1
                        hwaddr b0:26:28:24:eb:e1
                        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>)
                        status: active

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Yup, you should just be able to kldload it like that. Put the kernel module in /boot/modules and then add the line if_bnxt_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf.local so that it loads correctly at boot.

                          Steve

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                            Edouard Moreau @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10
                            I'm glad that you were able to get your nic working, but please comment on the feature request at https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9155. It would be much more confortable not to have to use the workaround every major update.

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                              rivest1000 @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10 Is there still an issue with pinging IPs on these interfaces? I got the to come up, but no ping after configuring same IPs that were on the 1G nics.

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                                rivest1000 @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 I can get the nic to ping for about 5 minutes and then dies. Cannot ping out or in. It also doesn't seem to work with a tagged Vlan at all :(. Is this a driver issue?

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                                  rivest1000 @stephenw10
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                                  @stephenw10 I believe I figured it out. It was not pinging when I made a vlan tag. I had to run "ifconfig bnxt0 promisc". how can I force it to stay promisc on reboot? and is it safe to leave promisc on in production environment?

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Usually that's no problem. You can use a shellcmd to put the NIC promiscuous mode.

                                    You should probably try disabling any hw vlan tagging on the NIC too. That may be the cause there.

                                    Steve

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                                    • viktor_gV
                                      viktor_g Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      now in 2.5:
                                      https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9155#note-7

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