Quote from: nero355 on Today at 03:58:48 PMI am curious :
Did you contact Protectli first and tried to get the update from them directly ?
If so : What did they say ?
Quote from: meyergru on Today at 04:04:48 PMRealtek NICs aren't, either. And see how well they work.IMHO that's a totally different category of hardware :
QuoteBasically, anything apart from Intel hardware could be called "exotic".Hmm... OK... but Broadcom a.k.a. LSI a.k.a. Marvell hardware isn't exactly a small part of the market either ?!
QuoteBut if it works fine under virtualisation according to your experience, then maybe you can help the OP?Unfortunately my short VT-D experiments never got to meet any i226 NICs (or any earlier models from the same series) and were mostly done with LSI HBAs and the older Dual/Quad Port 1 Gbps Intel NICs :)
Quote from: ajohn on Today at 03:30:45 PMCan report success on a Protectli v1410! I downloaded the 1MB firmware from the BillyCurtis github page and extracted the freebsd nvmeupdate64e executable from a recent firmware update from the intel website (used intel 830 series firmware update package).I am curious :
Quote from: alto on Today at 09:44:41 AMI currently have my management interface (igb0) connected with copper cat6 to my switch, this is also the parent interface of all my vlans.You should split that up to two seperate interfaces :
QuoteI want to change this to run over sfp+ though, i.e. to use interface ax0 instead.Think about what you need and what you are doing and you will probably come up with something like this : https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=51018.msg261070#msg261070
But what is the procedure to do this so that I don't completely lock myself out of the router if I change the management interface device from igb0 to ax0 and something doesn't work?