I've had a FreeNAS box setup for a few months now running rock solid with a quad port Intel NIC. Recently purchased a Dell Broadcom 57810 dual SFP+ NIC off ebay and slapped it into the box. On initial startup, the NIC comes online and works great but after a few minutes, the console dumps a ton of errors and the connection goes dead, although ifconfig still shows them as up.
The compatibility list shows the chipset as being supported.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html#ethernet
I read in an old thread from 2013 that disabling a few functions helped stabilize the cards. How would I go about disabling the features mentioned in the thread? They set it in /etc/rc.conf but that's with FreeNAS 9, would I still do the same with FreeNAS 11?
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-July/036123.html
What else can I do to troubleshoot the issue before determining I have a faulty card?
The compatibility list shows the chipset as being supported.
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html#ethernet
I read in an old thread from 2013 that disabling a few functions helped stabilize the cards. How would I go about disabling the features mentioned in the thread? They set it in /etc/rc.conf but that's with FreeNAS 9, would I still do the same with FreeNAS 11?
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-July/036123.html
What else can I do to troubleshoot the issue before determining I have a faulty card?