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Archive => 22.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: loganx1121 on December 06, 2022, 11:04:06 pm

Title: SFP's not detected on dell appliance
Post by: loganx1121 on December 06, 2022, 11:04:06 pm

We have some new dell appliances with 2 SFP cards, 4 SFP+ ports total (2 per card). 10 interfaces total, with the other 6 being 1Gig RJ45.

All the RJ45 interfaces are being detected by OPNsense, but the SFP ports are not. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would be? I confirmed the hardware shows in the IDRAC on the appliance.

I did read something about having to add sfxge_load="YES" to the /boot/loader.conf file, but that was for pfsense and I'm not sure if that applies here.

All the interfaces are broadcom. The SFP's specifically are: Broadcom 57412 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Adapter, PCIe Low Profile [540-BBVI] / 5100635

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: SFP's not detected on dell appliance
Post by: infinisourcekc on December 07, 2022, 04:58:11 pm

What SFP's are you inserting into that card?  I had a similar issue with Intel X520's and Cisco 10G-SR's recently.  The Intel X520 seems to ONLY take Intel branded SFP's as the Cisco's were not detected at all.

Title: Re: SFP's not detected on dell appliance
Post by: yourfriendarmando on December 07, 2022, 08:17:34 pm

See if the bxnt driver is being loaded? I'll check now if it's built as an available module. There doesn't seem to be a variable to set to allow unknown SFP+ modules, like some Intel drivers allow. Are the modules themselves Broadcom as well?

hw.ixgbe.unsupported_sfp="1"
hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1"