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Hello, I will have 2.5G/1.0G internet connection delivered by SPF+ I'll use IDS and IPS.
I may also have second WAN (not faster than 900/300) from different ISP over copper NICs (intel planned). The setup should be able to handle it too simultaneously (rather light traffic, backup only, maybe DNS server).

Questions:
Should I use bare metal or should/can I switch to Proxmox (for max performance)?
X520-DA2 or Connectx-3?
In case X520-DA2 am I forced to use Intel's modules? Can I use (non-intel) DAC (w/o performance penalty)?
16GB ram or 32GB ram (may be ubuntu+pihole on on core/2t/4GBram in case I use Proxmox)?
Will 4650G be sufficient?

WYSE 5070 has two Realtek NICs. One integrated and one (bought separately) 57GKF / 057GK SFP one. Under default installation there is watchdog timeout and interface goes up and down every X seconds.


opnsense disabled all hardware accelerations. Enabling TSO back solves above mentioned problem!

EDIT: Not solved, because opnsense failed to boot with wan plugged in (stalled on above problem, it looks like disabling of disabling of TSO is done after the boot). Downloading Realtek dedicated drivers via plugin solved the problem entirely, inlc a LOT shorter boot time!

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Greetings,


I have same stuff as here: [USER=5725]@BlueFox[/USER]

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it is not an Extended version, SFP is fancy stuff: 57GKF / 057GK


Problem is that SFP NIC with copper module (HP or Alcatel Photonix) is up while in BIOS. But after I load Ubuntu server, link is down (NIC is visible, just down). In OPNsense link is UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN...


What is wrong? Any ideas what to do? Maybe it is completely not compatible with copper modules?


I tried:

1. Different cables

2. Setting 1GBps on managed switch


I'll try: connecting via SFP patchcord not via RJ45 module.