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    Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM Support?

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      whizatit @stephenw10
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        whizatit @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 said in Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM Support?:

        @whizatit said in Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM Support?:

        currently running a 1000 Gb connection

        You're gonna need a big CPU! 😜

        There is no i225 support in current pfSense. But there will be at some point.

        Steve
        I JUST now got that, I feel dumb now thanks lol

        As for the rest of the post... I'm looking for at least a 2 port 2.5Gb card as internet here is/can/does have that speed for download. The card I originally posted about here just caught my eye. I still have not purchased a 2.5G card as I have seen conflicting information about everyone of them from the traffic graphs not working, cards not supported etc etc...

        Are there ANY currently working 2.5Gb cards available that are 100% compatible with pfsense? Preferably one with a built on fan as this is not going into a rack server and case fans do not have enough CFM for the most part for a high bandwidth card. No fan no problem i can add one, it would just make it more plug and pray!

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Most of the issues on this thread seem to be from UDP checksum which you can easily disable or run a 2.6 snapshot. We've seen no issues running the i225-V in the 6100.

          Steve

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            whizatit @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10
            on the 6100? sorry confused.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              4 of the i225-V NICs are used in the Netgate 6100. They work fine there.

              Steve

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                bk150
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                After disabling UDP checksum offloading, my I225-LMs are working great. I'm able to pull ~940 mbit/sec down and ~1100 mbit/sec upload hooked into an AT&T BGW-320. I'm provisioned for gigabit service so the cards seem to be working as expected.

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                  jerseymike @bk150
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                  @bk150 Same here. The outstanding question being, when will the driver get fixed so that HW offloading can be enabled again?

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                    bk150 @jerseymike
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                    @jerseymike it's already fixed in the 2.6.0 development builds :)

                    I would think the particular fixed could be implemented in the next 2.5.3 release but either way it should be working in 2.6.

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                      jerseymike @bk150
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                      @bk150 So I guess my next question is...

                      is 2.6.0 stable enough to use right now? LOL

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                        bk150 @jerseymike
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                        @jerseymike I guess it depends on your use case. I definitely wouldn't use it in production at a business but for home use, depends on how understanding your family members are 😄

                        I don't see any issue with using 2.5.2 with the UDP checksum hardware offloading disabled as my understanding is that it's still doing the UDP checksum, it's just in software instead of running on the network controller hardware itself. I would think this is sufficient for most cases as high loads of UDP traffic is pretty rare.

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                          whizatit
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                          Ok so thats f***** up it works in their own appliance but not public release? Stingy holding out on us lol. Not being mean just saying...

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            It was just unfortunate timing. We had a bunch of cool fixes for things in the 2.5.2 branch, including this. We had to eventually build 2.5.2 on the 2.5.0 branch because it was going to take too long to get everything fixed and tested when there were security patches ready to go. 😞

                            I have 2.6 running on a bunch of things without issue but there are still some outstanding things, most notably captive portal. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12217
                            That may be fixed in tomorrows snap though.

                            But check the list and decide for yourself:
                            https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/issues?query_id=106

                            Steve

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                              whizatit
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                              I am soooo damn slow... I just now realized your an admin and work with Netgate lol. Thanks for the heads up sir!

                              I'm just like everyone else, WE want "the" answer or answers and don't pay attention to everything else/details.

                              Goes to show READ EVERYTHING BEFORE doing ANYTHING!

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                                arodd
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                                I'm running the latest 2.6.0 snapshot with the QNAP QXG-2G2T-I225 and it is detected in the initial boot, but doesn't detect any interfaces and then shuts down. There are no other nics enabled(onboard is disabled in the BIOS). Maybe this specific device id isn't enabled, though I would have expected it to be a popular option. Has anyone else successfully gotten this specific card working? It is significantly cheaper than the 10Gb Intel varieties that support 2.5Gb 10GbaseT.

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                                  silvercharge @arodd
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                                  @arodd I've had inconsistent results as well using two of the single interface versions of the QNAP i225s - QXG-2G1T-I225. Also running 2.60. Sometimes the driver loads and others it does not. Currently running 2.6.0.a.20210907.0100 with success.

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    You have any logs showing it detected but not attaching maybe?

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                                      arodd @stephenw10
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                                      @stephenw10 I think I would need to fetch them via serial interface or something. It shuts down as soon as it boots up since there are no interfaces detected so there isn't an opportunity to fetch them and log to a flash drive or anything. Will see if I can get a serial port to dump the boot log.

                                      Edit: Scratch that my unit doesn't have a serial port. Will try and find another way to capture them if the boot/system log persists on disk after multiple boots.

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                                        arodd @arodd
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                                        @stephenw10 dmesg.txt
                                        Was able to fetch everything via single user mode, attached the dmesg output. The igc0 specific lines are below. This is from the latest 2.6.0.a.20210910.0100. Looks to be the same issue as previous posters, but still occurring in 2.6.x.

                                        igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7cfffff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7900000-0xf79fffff,0xf7a00000-0xf7a03fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7cfffff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7900000-0xf79fffff,0xf7a00000-0xf7a03fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7cfffff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225-LM> mem 0xf7900000-0xf79fffff,0xf7a00000-0xf7a03fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6
igc0: Setup of Shared code failed, error -2
igc0: IFDI_ATTACH_PRE failed 6
device_attach: igc0 attach returned 6
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                                          arodd
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                                          So it turns out my issue was related to booting via BIOS vs. UEFI. Realized this when it attached and was working in the installer CD via UEFI. Switched the install over to UEFI and everything is working now. 🤞

                                          Update: Things work fine without VLANs, but traffic isn't flowing when using VLAN interfaces.

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                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                            Try disabling any vlan hardware off-loading options. I'd start with VLAN_HWFILTER if it's enabled on that variant.

                                            The driver 2.6. is now identical to what we build in 21.05.1 (or 21.09) so oy must be some hardware difference.

                                            Steve

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