Intel E810-C drivers
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The module was not on our build list when 2.7.2 was built. It is in fact available in 23.09.1.
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@stephenw10 Means, (I'm sorry to say) you intentionally dropped ICE DDP from both PLUS (you said "included in 24.03" earlier) and CE released on 2023-12-07 (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/versions.html#pfsense-ce-software). Correct? I can not test PLUS because this is CE related forum, and I had a hope. Thank you.
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I had 24.03 open at the time to check but the module is also in 23.09.1.
We build a limited selection of kernel modules and update them as required. This one happened to not be on the list in 2.7.X.
There's already a feature request open for it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15174
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@stephenw10 I'm afraid that's not entirely accurate. After the pfSense 2.7.2 installation process, I observed that the if_ice and ice_ddp modules, which were present in the /boot/kernel directory of the 2.7.2 ISO image, are no longer available. This could potentially be a glitch or a bug in the installation procedure. Following the transfer of these modules from the ISO to the pfSense installation and the addition of corresponding "tunable variables" (if_ice_load and ice_ddp_load), along with a reboot, all functionalities are now operational. With DDP loaded, I now have 16 Tx and Rx queues instead of just one. Thank you.
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Hmm, well that's interesting! I would not have expected any difference in the modules built there. Well that's an easy solution at least.
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@stephenw10 Well, 2.7.2 and 23.09.1 have the same kernel version, so the both versions should have the same set of compiled drivers. BTW, 2.6 CE also has ice_ddp on ISO, but not after installation ;)
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out of curiosity now that 2.8 has been released,
can anyone confirm if 2.8.x CE contains the /boot/kernel/ice_ddp.ko drivers by default?
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@jsone Downloading, let me check it out, hold on
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It does not.
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Or rather the ice driver is included but not ice_ddp.
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thank you for the update despite the fact that the answer is a little disheartening
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@jsone Nope. It has icee.ko only, however the "installer" image has ice_ddp.ko. Manually copied from installer ISO to /boot/kernel, reboot (of course), tunables "ice_ddp_load=YES" do not work, neither in /boot/loader.conf ... and soooo version mismatch. it doesn't not work ... sorry ... They use modified FreeBSD kernel, so it may not work if copy from FreeBSD mainstream ... didn't check, but here we go. Thank you.
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@jsone switch to OPNSense ;)
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Just for info since I am checking ConnectX3 and ConnectX4 drivers (see another thread) I looked at the bootloader in the actual beta from pfSense+ hereby
[25.03-BETA][admin@pfSense.lan]/root: more /boot/loader.conf
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9="524288"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop="524288"
opensolaris_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="1000000"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9="524288"
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop="524288"
opensolaris_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
cryptodev_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
loader_conf_files="/boot/loader.conf.lua"
boot_serial="NO"
autoboot_delay="3"
debug.ddb.capture.bufsize="524288"
hw.e6000sw.default_disabled=1
hw.hn.vf_transparent="0"
hw.hn.use_if_start="1"
net.link.ifqmaxlen="128"
machdep.hwpstate_pkg_ctrl="1"
net.pf.states_hashsize="1048576" -
out of love for pfsense and a strong desire to keep using pfsense, just floating the idea out here for the people at netgate, i know pfsense goal is to offer paid appliances and pro licenses, so i get the desire to not to put labor into making the free stuff super fast, but please consider e810 was released in 2020, thats roughly 5 years ago. some systems come with sfp28 instead of sfp10 ports and it would be really nice to have pfsense CE 2.8.x support 28gb hardware like this at at-least 10gb or its full capacity.
thank you for your consideration
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@stephenw10 said in Intel E810-C drivers:
Or rather the ice driver is included but not ice_ddp.
Is this something for pfsense+ only?
Or is there some technical issue behind? -
We do build it for Plus.
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@stephenw10 said in Intel E810-C drivers:
We do build it for Plus.
Come on ... you just need to add two lines into the kernel config file and build CE.
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no idea in this special case .... however Netgate needs the plus edition to pay their staff ....
