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Dear FreeBSD Gurus! 1. Please suggest toolset for real-time monitoring low-level network parameters NIC’s I/O buffers utilization, RTO, etc…? I remind well-known scheme from this Brendan Gregg presentation in 2014(!). So, Is there for FreeBSD exist the full equivalent of this Gregg’s...

Hi, FreeBSD Gurus! How to flash LEDs on copper ETH RJ-45 NIC's port by shell script? I need to physically identify certain port on back of my servers with a lot of NICs each of them have 2-4 ETH ports. For now I find this solution (on StackExschange, not tested) but may be You propose a much...

Hi FreeBSD Gurus! We have FreeBSD (12 but planning to update to 13) installed on a old (born in 2014) server: PCIe 3.0 motherboard Intel C600 Series with 2xXeon 8-Core CPU with a 6 of PCIe v.3 4 of x8 slots (dedicated to CPU 1) 2 of x16 slots (dedicated to CPU 2) Both CPU are: Xeon E5-2670...

Hi, all FreeBSD Gurus! Could You be so please to explain: On which principles FreeBSD giving the NICs ports identity? From my knowledge, there are involved (from HIGHT IMPACT to LOW): motherboard schematics, BIOS subsystem, NICs mechanical interface (PCI, PCI-e, etc...), NICs order in...

Hello, I attached new nic to the motherboard, it's even in my ifconfig output, but the switch port is not going up. What should I do on FreeBSD host in order to activate new nic? Here Is the output of ifconfig. bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500...

Dear BSD gurus! How to determine the NIC port state (cable plugged yes/no, link yes/no, 10/100/1000 speed link, etc) ? Thank You all!

Hi, hardware gurus! How exactly BSD pf performance (in matter of low latency, high PPS, etc) depend on bus frequency, main CPU frequency and L2/L3 cache size in multi-package (mean physical multi-CPU, like Intel E5500/5600, E5-2000 series) server systems that intend working as border firewall...

Please tell me how to install the firmware update from Intel for network card Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T on motherboard Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F...

I'd like to buy 2 SFP+ cards and this HP 581201-B21 is dirt cheap compared to the alternatives. Last year it was 2.5x more expensive, so it looks like a really good deal. Idk why it became that cheap, probably it is retired. I am curious if I could use this with the latest FreeBSD? It would be...

Hi, FreeBSD guru! Is it possible at all to see which NIC is installed in which PCI slot by script ? As I know this may be something near the dmidecode and pciconf commands. But interesting to determine which exactly motherboard PCI slot are used for which NIC. I know that different...

The wireless card I'm using is a Sabrent PCI-802N Ralink RT3062F PBG26220E0 I tested the card in Linux and was able to connect another access point and retrieve webpages; in Linux it used the rt2800pci driver; though I didn't set it up as an AP. autoboot_delay="3" if_ral_load="YES"...

I have three Sun 501-6522-07 cards in a Dell Poweredge 2850 and they are recognized and configurable inside FreeBSD 10.3 however no traffic is sent out or received by the NICs. I have checked /boot/kernel and if_cas.ko wasn't there. Am I correct to assume that file needs to be loaded into the...

Hi, I installed a 10GB Intel NIC card (Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 10/40 GbE) on FreeBSD 10.3 on Dell T630 machine. FreeBSD 10.3 is not recognizing the NIC card. pciconf shows that the NIC card is not recognized. I find the following message on dmesg I tried to unload the...