Intel Pro 1000 CT NIC not working

[BossyBear]

I originally had a question for some odd behavior with a NIC but I decided the kind of help I was getting here was not worth the trouble. Have a nice day.

 

[cyberjock]

Two things:

First: It sounds like you've misconfigured your network with the explanation you provided with the CT. No clue what you did wrong since there's so many ways to break networking.

Second: Why would you put 2 PCI NICs on LAGG? Do you realize that the PCI bus cannot even keep up with a single Gigabit NIC's throughput? Not sure what value I'm seeing aside from redundancy, which many will argue is not truly that high of a priority if you are using PCI to begin with.

OK.. 3 things:

With the kind of throughput you are hoping to get with 3 NICs on your system, why oh why would you use a system with only 8GB of RAM? Sounds to me like you really aren't recognizing the fact that you've got other bottlenecks all over the place slowing you down. Just from what I've read, your CPU, your NICs in PCI, your Atheros, and your small amount of RAM all are potential bottlenecks that are definitely limiting you in various fashions. I'd look at just replacing the whole system with something newer, and with Intel built-in.

 

[BossyBear]

lah dee dah.

 

[cyberjock]

Yaaay! Another person that sees RAM utilization and somehow thinks that number means something. Hint: With ZFS, it doesn't actually mean what you think it means. Welcome to the real world and not the Microsoft world.

 

[BossyBear]

Is it just your online persona that's so pompous and condescending or are you like this to your friends too?

 

[cyberjock]

Only to people like you.

 

[BossyBear]

Your halitosis is really bad today.

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. sorry. My sarcasm meter is currently off-scale high too.

 

[Wayne Rasmussen]

I originally had a question for some odd behavior with a NIC but I decided the kind of help I was getting here was not worth the trouble. Have a nice day.

I also was having a problem with the Intel PRO 1000 CT card. Basically it worked (I had it in a LACP group) UNTIL I tried to enable Jumbo packets in which case the LACP group failed with an error relating to Jumbo Packet setting failure on the Intel PRO 1000 CT NIC. My belief is the system thinks it is a Intel PRO 1000 which does not support Jumbo Packets while the Intel PRO 1000 CT does/is supposed to!. My course of action was spend a few bucks and replaced it with an Intel PRO 1000 PT dual port NIC - all good now i.e. LACP with Jumbo frames enabled is working. I was running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 with an on board NIC (Realtek - FreeNAS did not complain about Jumbo Packets with it) + Intel PRO 1000 CT (FreeNAS complained about Jumbo Packets) when I encountered the problem and now FreeNAS 9.2.1.5 with Intel PRO 1000 PT dual, the on board and CT are not connected.
Note the CT is a PCI-E x1 adapted and the PT is a PCI-E x4 so it may be an issue to follow the path I chose if your system is so challenged.

 

[cyberjock]

I've got 3 Intel Pro 1000 CTs and I have used all of them with the 9000/9014 jumbo packet size without a problem.

I've got 2 PTs that I have used in LACP and jumbo packets without a problem.

Of course, both of these were done on 8.x. If anything is wrong I'd expect it to be some recent driver bug since FreeNAS simply takes the GUI input and pushes it to the NIC drivers.