New cheap Asus XG-C100C NIC

Ericloewe

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Supermicro wouldn't do anything. However, Benno Rice was working on a FreeBSD driver for the chipset.
 

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To clarify: Supermicro's expertise lies far away from writing drivers. It's up to the chipset vendor and/or communities.
 
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I got a couple of the Aquantia’s NICs on black friday sale and for try I ended up virtualizing FreeNAS on top of Proxmox which supports the Aquantia 10Gb NICs. I setup the NIC as VirtIO, passed the SATA drives and mounted my ZFS pools natively under the virtualized FreeNAS and re-set all of my SMB shares. I'm getting pretty much full 10Gb speed over SMB - a disk speed test on the mounted share shows sequential writes/read speeds of 1.1GB/s

I'll probably keep this setup for a while and see how it performs (it's a home setup so my reliability requirements are less stringent than a production setup though), but i still do have my USB sticks with FreeNAS install ready to pop them in if the virtualized environment has any hiccups.
 
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I was able to use the official FreeBSD driver from the Aquantia website. I did have to make some modifications to the source code in order to get it to compile on a clean install FreeNAS setup. The vendors driver code references features only included in FreeBSD 12 so I had to remove those references (5 lines). There were also some include statements that needed to be added to a few of the files.
 

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I was able to use the official FreeBSD driver from the Aquantia website. I did have to make some modifications to the source code in order to get it to compile on a clean install FreeNAS setup. The vendors driver code references features only included in FreeBSD 12 so I had to remove those references (5 lines). There were also some include statements that needed to be added to a few of the files.

Hachima, how did you managed to get it to work?
Did you use this driver: https://github.com/Aquantia/aqtion-freebsd ?
 

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I was able to use the official FreeBSD driver from the Aquantia website. I did have to make some modifications to the source code in order to get it to compile on a clean install FreeNAS setup. The vendors driver code references features only included in FreeBSD 12 so I had to remove those references (5 lines). There were also some include statements that needed to be added to a few of the files.
Hi Hachima, any chance sharing the modified driver/install instructions for N00bs like me?
 

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Using v.5 (on 11.3 FreeNAS) now without issue.

Granted only using it at 5GB. The device on the other end is a QNAP USB3.0 5GB adapter.
 

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Just wanted to say after messing with this for a while I am only getting a hair over half the speed I should be getting.

Only seeing ~260MB/sec transfers.
 

crkinard

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I ordered a X550-T2. Hopefully be here this week and will conduct some testing with that.

Already tried the QNAP adapter on another machine. With a 15 foot CAT7 and a 5 foot CAT6. Same speeds all around.
 

crkinard

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Well the bottleneck does not seem to be the network card on the FreeNAS side. Got the X550-T2 in and installed. Speeds are basically the same.

Had one test hit 280 but nothing ever broke 300.

Wish I had another computer with a free PCIe slot to rule out this USB adapter which I am thinking is the real issue now.
 

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Sorry about posting on an old thread but I would like to see if there's been any progress.
Apparently the last Mac Pro's have this chip and the card (Asus XG-C100C) works out of box on MacOS.
I haven't tested myself yet but I'm thinking of getting a card for my hackintosh.
 

Mike77

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No problem. No I haven't seen any new drivers for the Asus card. Buy Is Just found another one that alsof costs lees then €100,-- and should have freebsd drivers. It's an uptimed.

UP-10G-W-AQC107-1RJ45

Ik don't have one myself. Buy maybe someone on forum knows about it.
 

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Ok, I just realised this card also use the Aquantia chipset.
Great to see more cards on the market.
I also read somewhere thatTrueNAS 12 might have drivers for this chipset and would like to know more about that.:smile:
 

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Is there anyone using this NIC successfully?
I am not able to install plugins with DHCP on. It says that ip received from DHCP server is 0.0.0.0/8.
But, from server logs it is giving proper ip. And working fine with other NIC (Realtek).
Is there any way to resolve?
 

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TrueNAS 13 might have a better driver, it’s in RC right now if you want to give it a try. However, keep in mind that these NICs are likely never going to be as stable as Intel or Chelsio, if early experiences are any indication.
 

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I'm using it in my linux desktop but I ended up returning the ones I had bought for my BSD appliances and switching to Mellanox cards.
 
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