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10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« on: January 18, 2019, 02:13:18 pm »
I'm currently working on segregating my network into various vlans/subnets. I have a 10GbE Ubiquiti switch and an Asus RS200-E9-PS2 server that I'm using for my firewall. In my quest for network segregation with 10GbE, I learned that because my gateways are on the firewall, with a 1GbE connection, I'll be limited to 1GbE between devices on vlans that do communicate with each other.

With that said, I've had success with Mellanox Connectx-2s and 3s for SFP+ NICs in ESXi, Debian/Ubuntu, but don't know if these will work with OPNsense/FreeBSD? Can anyone confirm or recommend an SFP+ or RJ45 10GbE alternative?

Thanks!
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2019, 02:30:30 pm »
ConnectX-3 and up will work with 19.1.
Intel X520 are also pretty stable ...
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2019, 03:18:18 pm »
I'm assuming that the X540-T2 cards work as well? If I can utilize the RJ45 10GbE NICs on my switch, maybe that's the way to go....
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2019, 07:36:02 pm »
No idea, I only know X710 sucks :)
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2019, 10:20:05 pm »
Is that from personal experience or are they not supported?
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2019, 11:32:09 pm »
Personal experience. Most Intel cards are supported, also most Chelsio and Mellanox with 19.1
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2020, 10:36:41 am »
Try to find in the new FreeBSD hardware database (new-gen bsdstats): https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=search&name=10-Gigabit&typeid=network
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Re: 10GbE NIC Recommendation?
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2020, 10:41:21 am »
I use X710-T4 in VmWare environments and they work great.

Home lab is X540-T2 and they have no issues besides netmap errors when running inline IDS.
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