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Hi CrazyWolf,

I'm thinking about buying a DL30N for Opnsense. Is your problem solved? Could you recommend the device?

Thanks a lot

Hi mdb9777,

I bought it over a year ago, since then it has been running without any othe problems than the above mentioned, which were fixed by ensuring all these eco, power saving features are off and the bios update from shuttle website done.

Otherwise I'm really really happy with it, it's rather good specced and won't have any problems even with more ressource intensive things.

Overall can really recommend it, also because the price is quite good.

Feel free to reply if you need any other info, I happily provide that :)

Hi France,

Appreciate the reply!

Any ideas if this will end up in community edition as well?

Thanks!

Just saw the announcement for v25.1.9 https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=47655.msg240428#msg240428

Anyone knows what's up with:
o system: add minimalistic interface to support SSO authentication

you can check with

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pciconf -lcv whether ASPM is even enabled for NICs. i found that in a few aliexpress type machines i have, ASPM is just straight up disabled and there is no option to enable it.

linux i226 driver works fine with ASPM. tested OpenWRT on Odroid H4 ultra and no speed issues. load OPNsense on and immediate speed issues. disabled ASPM in BIOS, thankfully Odroid is a good brand with regular BIOS updates and support, and it immediately fixed all my speed test issues i was seeing.

Thanks!

Yeah seems like ASPM is off on my NICs too:

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link x1(x1) speed 5.0(5.0) ASPM disabled(L1)

Yeah shuttle is kind of such a brand too, however they seem quite okay, they are somewhat based in germany, though sell taiwan made stuff.

Honestly, it's like always, I never get a problem where it just does work/or not work I always have such weird sometimes occuring problems, everywhere in my homelab lol

Reportedly, those adapters do not really work nicely with ASPM. If you can disable it in your BIOS, try that.

I don't actually have that option in my BIOS.

Thanks!

dmesg doesn't really show that much.
```
XXXXXXX@OPNsense:~ $  dmesg | grep -i i226
igc0: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I226-LM> mem 0x80c00000-0x80cfffff,0x80d00000-0x80d03fff at device 0.0 on pci1
igc1: <Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I226-LM> mem 0x80900000-0x809fffff,0x80a00000-0x80a03fff at device 0.0 on pci2
```

The problem is, that I'm not really sure which update, it must've happened between september 2024 and january 2025 which there were quite some updates, and as far as I remember downgrading is not really possible, nor something I'd really want to do on my single only prod firewall/router.

All available energy options are set to unrestricted/off, which are, though the mentioned ones are not even available in that bare minimum BIOS.
How would I even rollback a kernel manually?

Sorry for the assumption, but your answer sounds quite ai-generated.

Hi
I'm experiencing the same issue, it seems to be severly oudated.

Would be awesome if this could be bumped up some versions to 2.1 to get rid of the security notice.

Thanks!

Hi,
I own a Shuttle DL30N with those intel i-226-x ethernet controllers, as we know, they kind of have a reputation of quite a lot of problems, however fortunately they were fixed by intel upstream.

Luckily in August Shuttle uploaded a new BIOS with the upstream fix from intel, which solved all my issues, but since around, guessed 1 month I experience the same behaviour again, without really modifying anything except doing opnsense updates. Sadly I cannot really recall since which exactl update the problems re-appeared.

These problems include (Interfaces going in a weird on/off stale status)

Is anyone experiencing the same?
Has anyone found a fix yet?

Has this ever been solved?

I weirdly enough seem to experience the same.

I own a Shuttle DL30N with those intel i-226-x ethernet controllers.
Luckily in August Shuttle uploaded a new BIOS with the upstream fix from intel, which solved all my issues, but since around, guessed 1 month I experience the same behaviour again, without really modifying anything except doing opnsense updates.

Small Update on this thread, seems like intel did an upstream fix of the issue related to i-226-x ethernet controllers, watch out for new BIOS versions, my oem (Shuttle) released one in July which resolved ALL issues with stability (NIC's going down etc.).

Little Update here,

@imk82
I don't know how much to thank you, but the BIOS update for the faulty i226 ethernet ports actually solved my issues, I did actually search for a bios update, but before the new version was released . :D

Thanks!

It's called Uptime - Kuma, https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Thanks for the idea with the LAN Ports, due to the BSD issue, I came on the path with the BIOS, and there is actually a new Bios update online, since around a Month, with you call it, "Improved LAN stability"

https://global.shuttle.com/products/productsDownload?pn=DL30N%20SERIES

At least I got lucky, when choosing the vendor.
I'll first test the bios, then later check on the power options.

Thanks imk82

That is fitting my exact scenario very well, for me it also occured after switching to a Intel N100 based Mini-PC, with Intel NIC's, also for me it surprisingly often occurs when there is high load on the LAN interface. Also funnily enough I also have Intel-i226-LM NIC's.

I'll update as soon as I could look at the bios.

Hi Gauss23
Thanks for the suggestion with SPanning-Tree-Protocol, I don't have anything particularly set up in this direction.
As I don't have a console cable, I can only guess here, but mostly the opnsense seems online, just really sluggish, and sometimes not on all interfaces.

Thanks!

Seems I have the exact same problem!