[CALL FOR TESTING] FreeBSD 13.1 / 22.7 operating system preview

[Lynxcat]

What do you mean by running, did you perform any usual installation steps ?

[phantomsfbw]

I get a Phalcon error after initial install, so I was curious how you managed to get it to work?

[phantomsfbw]

Disregard all previous comments I made here please.  Some how got it working...

[franco]

Huh, but it's my thread :D

[almodovaris]

About one time per week I had connectivity loss on the LAN. With the test kernel it seems that is no longer happening. Although it might be a bit early to say that.

[almodovaris]

Yup, spoke too early. Between 7th and 8th day I lose connectivity on LAN.

[vernetzen]

Rather pleased to have found this thread. I needed support for a "Quectel EM12-G" LTE modem that was installed yesterday at the datacenter, but which is only available in FBSD 13.1. Initiated the 22.7.b update, rebooted, and now the PPP interface section of the UI recognizes the modem and lists the usual expected options.

I'll let this bake in for a few more hours and if there are no issues then I'll upgrade the active node (running a 2-node H/A pair, with the passive one on 22.7.b).

Here's the HW Probe link to the machine specs if it's useful for the dev team: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=cd8960f886 ; it's a decent enterprise-spec Dell R630 with 4x 1G and 4x 10G Intel based interfaces, though they're being upgraded soon to run 8x 10G (X710 quad-SFP+ rNDC and X710 quad 10G-BASET).

[Scuro]

I've been getting errors on my i225v ports that have VLANed traffic. I tried updating to see if driver changes fixed it. No change.

[mimugmail]

I've been getting errors on my i225v ports that have VLANed traffic. I tried updating to see if driver changes fixed it. No change.

Did you assign the parent interface?

[Scuro]

Yes, and I also tried giving it an IP for untagged traffic.

And because of a new issue (WAN interface refused to pull IP from DHCP because it thought the interface was down) I reverted back to the current stable.

Both versions however have the same symptoms; tagged vlans generate errors.

[franco]

Are these errors measurable beyond merely looking at a counter increasing in a monitoring tool?


Cheers,
Franco

[Scuro]

I tried getting details of errors but all I could find was interface errors in netstat.
Speed test also were unable to reach full WAN speeds. After switching to untagged vlans full speeds were reached.

[franco]

Thanks for clarifying. So situation is the same for 22.1 and 22.7? There isn't a lot of movement in igc driver between 22.1 and 22.7 if that would be any indication of the problem at hand.


Cheers,
Franco

[Scuro]

Correct. It seems this issue is common.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=28809.msg140202#msg140202

[gac]

Is there anything to be aware of if someone applied this test base/kernel, with 22.1.9 being released? i.e. should you avoid 22.1.9 altogether? Should you upgrade to 22.1.9, then reapply this preview? Should you do something else?