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    Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]

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      onoseto
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      Oh yeah, also wanted to thank to @Rico who gave me the idea that this might be possible and actually dig it. So happy, that I can now use the sweet 10g NIC, and learned a bunch along the way!

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Nice work!

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          madbrain @onoseto
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          @onoseto Thanks for this great work !

          My two AQN-107 NICs are in a drawer in the garage, currently. I have been using an Intel X550-T2 dual-port NIC with pfSense for a year, for both 2.5 Gbps WAN (Comcast) and 10 Gbps LAN.

          The X550-T2 is a little bit faster than the Aquantia AQN-107, in addition to having two ports. It lacks WOL support, however, which doesn't matter for pfSense, but does for a desktop. I discovered this when I bought a second X550-T2 for my main Windows desktop to get last tiny bit of performance (max iperf3 on LAN with one stream). WOL no longer worked. I had to enable the motherboard Intel I211 NIC, and turn on WOL on it. I didn't bind any protocol to it (no TCP/IP). It does require an extra ethernet cable, and port on a 1Gb switch, but those are cheap enough.

          Anyway, the Aquantia seems to be great with Linux as they have been supported out of the box in the kernel for several years with Ubuntu. Not sure about other distributions. My NAS runs Linux and uses an Aquantia AQN-107 and is able to max out the connection, unlike under Windows.

          For pfSense, the AQN-107 driver is regrettably not part of the official distribution. Is there any chance that it will ever make it to the official pfSense distribution ? That would be really welcome for disaster recovery scenarios (drive failure) to be able to just upload the settings to restore, without the need to figure out how to rebuild/download and reinstall the driver.
          There are of course workarounds, such as temporarily using the motherboard built-in NIC for either WAN or LAN.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Likely when the driver is added the FreeBSD tree directly rather than as kmod pkg.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @onoseto
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              @onoseto Are you able to re-attach that? Unfortunately attachments to the forum were lost for a short period and that was included.

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