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Howdy,
I got pretty fed up with some stupid shenanigans my TP-Link Router (BE800) was doing and finally decided that I was just going to do my own router and keep it as an Access Point in bridge mode.
I recently swapped my desktop gaming PC with a gaming laptop and have been trying to decide what to do with it (i9 12900k / 64GB RAM / 1TB 970 NVME). I picked up some TRENDnet cards (TEG-25GECTX and TEG-10GECTX) on Amazon because I was looking at getting one of their 10Gbe Switches. Due to the hardware I figured it would be a waste to run pfSense alone so I'll virtualize it with a few other things as well. Getting ESXi going was a headache in itself but once I got past that it was "RELATIVELY" simple. Put together a pfSense VM with the onboard NIC acting as the WAN until drivers and everything was sorted. ESXi can't make direct use of either cards themselves but I can PCI pass them through. After some tinkering and package installs I got the 2.5Gb card working but for the life of me I can't seem to figure out the 10Gbe card. So far I know that I need to get the package needed for it to work (aquantia-atlantic-kmod) but just about everything I try gets me no where. Either pfSense can't find the package or I'm not doing something right.
Keep in mind the title and be patient with me, can someone point me in the right direction on getting this working? Once I get the 10Gbe NIC working I'll do the 2.5 Card as the WAN, 10Gbe as LAN, run it to the TP-Link and go from there to keep incoming traffic out of ESXi.
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So I just seen the sticky that this would probably be better in another sub-forum, please let me know if I need to make another thread elsewhere
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