How to set FEC on QSFP interface
-
Is there an equivalent to ethtool in pfsense/freeBSD that allows the FEC mode to be specified on an interface?
-
@eracerxrs I would gamble saying if the tool comes with FreeBSD kernel, it most likely available. You haven't mentioned your need for needing that tool, maybe there's a configuration available in pfSense to manipulate...
Updated later after research:
Based on here it seems that you don't need the "ethtool" ifconfig is the tool to use. -
@NollipfSense Thanks for the reply. Ifconfig doesn't have a setting for FEC, but fortunately I found the solution by using the intel driver specifically for the E823-L which offers a wide range of tunable parameters.
Unfortunately that driver doesn't compile correctly using the the latest FreeBSD 14.0 CURRENT release and the RELEASE version has been delayed. So it looks like I'm stuck on pfSense 2.6 until I can compile a driver for the latest update.