Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM Support?
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I was curious of his testing. I ran for years with everything enabled using my 2 port Broadcom LOM on my Dell r220. Never a problem. I understand it's against what is recommended, but the Broadcom drivers for my NICs were mature and handled everything correctly without issue.
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@slk2k I left everything at the default.
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Awesome - thanks!!
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@silvercharge FWIW, in my scenario, I had to ensure that only i225 NICs were installed in a system. If any other NICs, (intel, broadcom, etc.) were installed then the i225 driver would fail to load over 90% of the time. I tested on two distinct systems.
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Eyeing post intently, drooling with anticipation...
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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 lolAs 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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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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4 of the i225-V NICs are used in the Netgate 6100. They work fine there.
Steve
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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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@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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@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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@bk150 So I guess my next question is...
is 2.6.0 stable enough to use right now? LOL
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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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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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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=106Steve
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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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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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@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.
