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Hardware and Performance / Re: Driver HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER

« on: March 08, 2021, 01:20:04 am »

Well, I'll be dipped.... I manually loaded the driver and poof, it showed right up. and no errors at all. at least not so far. Thank you! now the question is, how do i get this driver to load on startup so i don't have to go in and manually fire it up everytime?

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Driver HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER

« on: March 07, 2021, 11:55:27 pm »

I'm working on that as we speak. I'll post back in here and let you know what i find. I think the issue will be, if it loads, is weather or not i get a ton of errors like it did with pfsense running. it has to be reliable. Thanks for the input, that's what i was looking for. But i figured if pfsense saw it, then opnsense should theroretically see it too. just didn't know how to load it.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Driver HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER

« on: March 06, 2021, 05:22:59 am »

so i did a little experimenting. I threw pfsense on this box and it recognized the NICs. it through some errors but i can configure them. so that's a start. I'm going to just go ahead and buy a supported NIC for this though just in case. they aren't all that expensive to get a supported one. then at least i can stay with opnsense.

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Driver HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER

« on: March 05, 2021, 03:59:49 pm »

Yeah, i don't think it's been ported to opnsense because it won't recognize it when i try to configure interfaces. So the question is how would one go about porting it from BSD over to opnsense? I'm just trying to get 10g fiber ports working without breaking the bank. I had the card already and i have a microtik router that's brand new.  (i'm just not fond of routerOS and I really don't want to reconfigure everything in that OS). I really don't care which way I go with it, I just want to get it working. But I need some help to get there.

I wander if pfsense already has it? I've just been migrating away from them because of how they treated opnsense. we run it at work and i'm used to it but I'd rather stay with opnsense. if the driver is already in pfsense it may be easier to pull it and port it over.

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Hardware and Performance / Driver HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER

« on: March 04, 2021, 09:31:46 pm »

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have an HP NC523SFP DUAL PORT 10Gb SERVER ADAPTER i threw in an old computer, the bios recognizes it but opnsense does not. Is there a driver that will work with it and if so... can someone walk me through or point me how to get it installed? I have fiber pulled between 3 buildings in my network and would love to get this working.

the other alternative is to somehow get opnsense working on mikrotik hardware but I haven't had any luck getting someone to respond to that question so maybe this can be an option. I do have a new microtik router with two sfp+ ports but from what i understand they are running ARM processors so I don't know how opnsense will cooporate with them.

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General Discussion / opnsense on microtik?

« on: February 23, 2021, 04:46:15 pm »

Hello all, hoping some of you may have some input that I can run with. Right now i have a sophos UTM that's running opnsense. It works great but I'm limited to the 1gig ports on it. I'm wanting to upgrade to a router with sfp+ ports and eliminate the small sfp+ switch I have after my firewall altogether. I'm a network engineer for an ISP and we use microtik hardware to run the entire network because it's lightweight and seems to be reliable but... I don't want to pull my home network off the opnsense firewall. I don't necessarily care if it's microtik hardware per say, that just happens to be handy and i can get it cheaper being we have stacks of them laying around.

Does anyone have any experience trying to get opnsense to run on microtik hardware? I'm looking at one of these (CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS Mikrotik Cloud Core Router)

But if there is any other hardware you have experience with that has sfp+ ports that will run opnsense I'm all ears. Ideally I'd like to get one with at least 3 open sfp+ ports to eliminate one of my switches.