Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM Support?

stephenw10

Ah, so it does actually appear to lose link. Are you sure it's not doing so because of, for example, a bad cable?

skzs012

unfortunately i rule out the cable error since i tried with a CAT-6 factory cable 1.5m and tried with a cat5-e cable it's not good unfortunately and even I made a cable with the same problem.

stephenw10

Ok, well I would be confirming it still fails in FreeBSD current at this point then. If it fails in the latest code we can open an upstream bug (if one does not already exist).

Steve

skzs012

@stephenw10 I'm still trying a few things for that!
I try to plug the NIC into a 1Gb / s port to see if it still produces the error.
What I noticed is that I have a upload speed and the connection doesn't stop at 1198Mb / s Upload

So there's just something wrong with downloading

stephenw10

OK good to know. You did disable the checksum offloading as detailed earlier? I just realised I'm not sure we checked.

skzs012

@stephenw10 yes i banned but it didn't change

stephenw10

OK, pretty much need to test the current code in FreeBSD then.

Mael

Just wanted to check in here and let you all know I was able to get a 2.5Gb card with a I225V chipset working in my Netgate XG-7100 running 21.05.2. I think the issue you guys are hitting is the cards you're using are I225-LM chipsets and not I225V chipsets. Obviously the fact that I'm using a Netgate appliance means my solution might not work for you, but I'm guessing the I225V chipset support is the same in 2.5.2 as it is in 21.05.2. @stephenw10 correct me if I'm wrong about this.

For more information on my setup and the card I used, see this thread.

Netgear CM2050v -->Netgate XG-7100 2.5Gbs card (input) --SFP+ DAC (output) --->Unfi SFP+ port on my switch

n1ck31

@mael I'm thinking that might be the problem here.

I'm going to be buying this: https://www.fs.com/products/101476.html and using my tested stable X520 NIC

Theoretically this should work:

2.5G WAN Modem -> FS Converter (2.5G IN) -> FS Converter (10G SFP+ Out) -> Intel X520-DA2

It's not a cheap solution compared to the QNAP card, but it should work stabley.

Option 2 is buying a Netgear unmanaged 2.5G switch with a 10G SFP and putting that between my modem and firewall, but that's 500 CAD instead of 250 CAD.

xiazuojie

@skzs012
It looks like we have the exact same issue, i.e. link goes down with high inbounding traffic while outgoing traffic works fine.

On thing I've noticed is we are both running revision 3 hardware.

Could the issue be the combination of hardware revision v3 (my firmware is 1.74) and the driver?

skzs012

@xiazuojie then i will be back to dual wan 2x1Gb / s for now and i will keep this card for now.
I'll check the firmware when I get home!

skzs012

i decided to send this NIC back and buy an I225-V version to see if that fixes the problem

xiazuojie

@skzs012 don’t bother. I am running i225-v b3

stephenw10

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

I am running i225-v b3

That is the NIC we have in the 6100 and I also have a separate NIC using that chipset and it works fine. In Plus it should work without issue. In CE it will work in 2.6. In 2.5.2 you will need to disable checksum offload.

Steve

xiazuojie

@stephenw10
What is the hardware revision and firmware version that you have tested?

Mine is i225-v b3 revision and 1.74 firmware.

stephenw10

Yes, it's the b3 revision.

igc0@pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x15f38086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Controller I225-V'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

I'm not seeing the firmware version reported, where are you seeing that?

xiazuojie

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

I'm not seeing the firmware version reported, where are you seeing that?

There is an Intel I225 Firmware Update Tool
(Windows only) here.

Mine shows the following.

PS C:\Users\abc\Desktop\Nvmupdate145\i225> .\nvmupdatew64e.exe -i -l

Intel(R) Ethernet NVM Update Tool
NVMUpdate version 1.35.30.0
Copyright (C) 2013 - 2020 Intel Corporation.

Inventory
[00:033:00:00]: Intel(R) Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V
        Flash inventory started.
        Shadow RAM inventory started.
        Shadow RAM inventory finished.
        Flash inventory finished.
        OROM inventory started.
        OROM inventory finished.
[00:033:00:00]: Intel(R) Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V
        Vendor                 : 8086
        Device                 : 15F3
        Subvendor              : 8086
        Subdevice              : 0000
        Revision               : 3
        LAN MAC                : 2C534A0AF4C2
        Alt MAC                : FFFFFFFFFFFF
        SAN MAC                : 000000000000
        ETrackId               : 80000185
        SerialNumber           : 2C534AFFFF0AF4C2
        NVM Version            : 1.87(1.57)
        PBA                    : G23456-000
        VPD status             : Not set
        VPD size               : 0
        NVM update             : No config file entry
          checksum             : Valid
        OROM update            : No config file entry
          CIVD                 : 0.0.0
          PXE                  : 0.4.7, checksum Valid
          EFI                  : 0.8.6, checksum None

stephenw10

Ah, OK. No easy way for me to run that. I'll see if I can pull anything.
Not seeing 1.74 there though.

xiazuojie

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

Not seeing 1.74 there though.

Sorry for remembering it wrong. As you can see it's actually NVM Version : 1.87(1.57)

stephenw10

One of our devs has two of the QNAP cards and reports no issues running full line rate between them for hours using the latest code in FreeBSD. So I suspect we just need to pull that code in somewhere. Not sure where though as it appears to have been in 2.6 for a while now...