Temperature sensor : Intel NIC

[verizu]

It seems my NIC x550-t2 has a temperature sensor, is there a way to make the OS recognize it ?

[stephenw10]

I've never seen that reported from an Intel NIC but if it was I'd expect it to be in the sysctls.

Are you seeing that in the specs? Under Linux?

Steve

[verizu]

Yes i was looking at the x550 datasheet and even my cheap asus card has one (aquantia) so I guess there must be one for security in case of overheating ?

[stephenw10]

Hmm, looking at the driver there are references to thermal sensors for several chipsets but I can't see how you might go about reading it.
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/blob/RELENG_2_5/sys/dev/ixgbe/if_ix.c#L3594

[verizu]

now idea maybe I should ask the question on freebsd forum

[stephenw10]

Yep, that's probably a good idea.

If it can be read I doubt it would be that hard to display it.

Steve