Intel X710-T4L Not Supporting 2.5G or 5G

vgarber

Trying to get my intel nic working with my at&t modem. The modem has a 5G port, and I have a X710-T4L, so I should be able to negotiate at 5G. But ifconfig -m ixl0 reports

 ixl0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=4e100bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
        capabilities=4f507bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG>
        ether b4:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%ixl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 10Gbase-T
                media 1000baseT
                media 100baseTX
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

What am I doing wrong here?

I have tried to force 2.5G and 5G on the router side. But no dice.

stephenw10

Might need a newer firmware. Which pfSense version are you using?

vgarber

@stephenw10

2.7.2-RELEASE. Probably need a firmware upgrade; just not sure of the steps. Is this what I would need to grab https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18190/non-volatile-memory-nvm-update-utility-for-intel-ethernet-network-adapter-700-series.html and a linux bootable image?

stephenw10

Shouldn't need to be that new. I'd only expect a problem if it's really ancient. Check the output of sysctl dev.ixl.0 the firmware version should be shown there.

vgarber

@stephenw10

dev.ixl.0.fw_version: fw 8.84.67010 api 1.14 nvm 8.40 etid 8000b1f6 oem 20.5120.13

stephenw10

Hmm, that doesn't seem that old. Have you seen that NIC connect at 2.5G or 5G at all? In some other OS or host perhaps?

DBayPlaya2k3

I have a feeling it's because you have a x710-t4 instead of a x710-t4L .

Only the T4L supports multi gig speeds.

I also recently ran into this. I had the two port version which works at multi gig and wanted a 4 port card for future expansion so I purchased one. It just like you did not link up at 2.5gbs in my case and when I investigated (since I knew my 2 port card did) I learned it was because I didn't purchase the "L" variant.

stephenw10

Hmm, that would be interesting. Is it reported anywhere? Different PCI ID?