QLE3242 Errors preventing interfaces from working.

LucassVT

Hello, first time poster here.

I installed pfsense on a Fujistsu ThinClient S920 AMD GX-415GA where i added a QLE3242 with a fiber and a gigabit sfp modules.

I plan to use the fiber for PPPoE connection to replace the ISP device, and the gigabit one for LAN.

Currently im using the Ethernet port of the device itself as i cant get the QLE card to work.

Pfsense detects the interfces and allows me to configure them but wen they go UP or the configuration gets applied i get a long list of errors and the connection is never stablished.

List of Errors:
pfsense_logs.txt

On the gigabit sfp, if i connect a cable to my switch the ligts on the switch turns on and shows activity, but the NIC card shows no activity on any light.

Searching for those errors i found a lot of posts about getting the drivers from freeBSD on pfsense, but the drivers seems to be there as the card and interfaces are detected and can be configured.

I tried installing FreeBSD to test and it does not even seem to detect the those interfaces, so it seems like its lacking this driver.

Also, the BIOS detects the NIC and its interfaces without issues.

Is there anything to do?

I know that there is an extensive list of HW supported by pfsense, but i got this NIC really cheap and i would like to make it work.

Thnaks in advance.
Lucas VT.

stephenw10

You could try setting the MTU manually as shown here:
https://forum.netgate.com/post/927739

Does the switch show it linked at 10G?

Steve

LucassVT

@stephenw10 Thanks forr your answer.

I tried setting the MTU manually but i still get the same list of errors.

The switch shows a link and the activity lights blink.

I also tried setting manually most of the automaticly negotiated connection parameters with no luck.

stephenw10

Does the switch show it's linked at 10G though?
I was unsure from your description exactly how you have it connected.

Do you still see those same logs if you are not using PPPoE?

Steve

LucassVT

@stephenw10

"ql0" has a ethernet adapter, the cable is connected and there is activity on the switch ligths and not on the NIC, also the connection appears as "no carrier" on pfsense, on my switch the link appears as Gigabit.

The logs i attached on the original post shows errors on "ql0" that is the ethernet sfp with standard DHCP/static IP configurations.

The port with PPPoE is "ql1" that has the fiber sfp.

Both ports give the same long list of errors wen configured, i did not try the fiber port connection yet, becasue i have to replace my current router and i have some services running that i dont want to interrupt.

stephenw10

@lucassvt said in QLE3242 Errors preventing interfaces from working.:

"ql0" has a ethernet adapter

You mean an RJ-45 1G-baseT port there? Or a 1G RJ-45 SFP module?

You often have to set 1G fixed to link at 1G against a 10G port. Does it have that available as link speed?
What does ifconfig -vm ql0 show?

Steve

LucassVT

@stephenw10

Okay, a small summary of my device ports:
re0 - motherboard RJ-45 1G
ql0 - SFP RJ-45 1G
ql1 - SFP fiber monochanel

the output of the command is:

ql0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	description: OPT1
	options=8003b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,LINKSTATE>
	capabilities=8013b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,TSO4,LINKSTATE>
	ether d8:9d:67:34:28:68
	inet6 fe80::da9d:67ff:fe34:2868%ql0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x1
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier
	supported media:
		media autoselect
		media 10Gbase-SR mediaopt full-duplex
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

stephenw10

Ok, then that 1G SFP/RJ-45 module is unlikely to work there. It can only autoselect to 1G and 10G ports often cannot do that. Especially for RJ-45 modules like that.

Are you able to test connecting to something else at 10Gbase-SR directly?

Steve

LucassVT

@stephenw10

Umm, okay, the thing is that i get exactly the same set of errors during boot without any of the SFP modules installed, so i think that the errors that i see on the logs come straight from the NIC and not the modules.

stephenw10

Yes, I agree those errors look to be a higher level than the SFP module. But also those are probably not preventing it linking.

If you look here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2308795-what-is-going-on-with-my-vmware-storage-cannot-communicate-with-freenas#entry-9110423

That's pretty much exactly what you are seeing and although it would not pass traffic without the mtu being set it was linking at 10G just fine.

Steve

LucassVT

@stephenw10 Okay, many thnaks, I will try to get my hands on other SFP modules and try again.

stephenw10

If you don't have a 10G switch you can always try simply linking the two ports directly. That will at least they are functional under pfSense. They can get a link at all.

LucassVT

@stephenw10 Thanks for te tip, i do have a 10G switch, what i dont have is a monochannel fiber device to test, i will have to experiment staright with the fiber that the ISP provides ;)