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Hello, I seem to have hit a wall in my effort to use PfSense with passthrough NICs. Specifically, after trying the recommended approach, after finding and implementing an alternative solution, together with some extensive log-digging sessions, I came to the conclusion that I have to ask for help. I am currently completely unable to passthrough the NICS in question, or, rather, 3 out of the 4 ports on the card.
My system specs, witch I am only posting because of a possible correlation to the underlying problem are:
I then tried altering the scheme, using
Interesting parts from Host log on boot:
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Update 1
I am currently trying again, this time with
Update 2
As expected, virtualized IO drivers had no effect. Will hail-Mary the
Update 3
Changing
Update 4
OPNSense not viewing the NICs. Trying linux to see if it is a bhyve issue or a freebsd guest issue.
My system specs, witch I am only posting because of a possible correlation to the underlying problem are:
I first tried following the official guide for PCI passthrough, witch consists of the tunablesHP ProLiant DL380P Gen 8 (8.1 software-firmware) second hand system
Intel Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.5 GHz 6 Core CPUs (2 of them)
(TrueNAS says Broadcom) HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter (iLO says embedded, but in TrueNAS withought passthrough is listed PCIe)
HP Smart Array P420i SAS-SATAIII Controller
250GB Test SSD, SATA III 2.5 inch Kingston drive
4 X 4GB DDR-III RAM RDIMMs (non HPE memory)
Patsburg 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller (having no ports, I imagine this is for the USB's, DVD and iLO)
TrueNAS-13.0-U1.1
VM1 - PfSense 2.6.0 x64
The Host is managed both from WebGUI and iLO remotely. The PfSense guest through VNC, UEFI boot (tried every other type, from both the installer and VM setup).
vmm_load="YES"
type LOADER
and pptdevs="3/0/1 3/0/2 3/0/3"
(those are the correct IDs) rebooting the host and starting the PfSense VM. No joy.I then tried altering the scheme, using
vmm_load=YES
type LOADER
and pptdevs2="3/0/1 3/0/2 3/0/3"
. Still no joy.Interesting parts from Host log on boot:
Code:
Firmware Warning (ACPI): Invalid lenght for FADT/Pm1aControlBlock: 32, using default 16 (20201113/tbfadt-850) Firmware Warning (ACPI): Invalid lenght for FADT/Pm2ControlBlock: 32, using default 16 (20201113/tbfadt-850) acpi0: _OSC failed: AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW pcieb3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 numa-domain 0 on pci0 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib3 pci0:3:0:0: VPD read timed out pci0:3:0:0: failed to read VPD data. bge0: <Broadcom unknown BCM5719, ASIC rev. 0x5719001> mem 0xf6bf0000-0xf6bfffff,0xf6be0000-0xf6beffff,0xf6bd0000-0xf6bdffff irq 32 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci3 bge0: APE FW version: NCSI v1.3.16.0 bge0: CHIP ID 0x05719001; ASIC REV 0x5719; CHIP REV 0x57190; PCI-E miibus0: <MII bus> numa-domain 0 on bge0 brgphy0: <BCM5719C 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto, auto-flow bge0: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048 bge0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx pci0:3:0:1: VPD read timed out pci0:3:0:1: failed to read VPD data. ppt0 mem 0xf6bc0000-0xf6bcffff,0xf6bb0000-0xf6bbffff,0xf6b70000-0xf6b7ffff irq 36 at device 0.1 numa-domain 0 on pci3 pci0:3:0:2: no valid VPD ident found pci0:3:0:2: failed to read VPD data. ppt0 mem 0xf6bc0000-0xf6bcffff,0xf6bb0000-0xf6bbffff,0xf6b70000-0xf6b7ffff irq 32 at device 0.2 numa-domain 0 on pci3 pci0:3:0:3: no valid VPD ident found pci0:3:0:3: failed to read VPD data. ppt0 mem 0xf6bc0000-0xf6bcffff,0xf6bb0000-0xf6bbffff,0xf6b70000-0xf6b7ffff irq 36 at device 0.3 numa-domain 0 on pci3
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Update 1
I am currently trying again, this time with
virtio_load
YES and virtio_pci_load
YES in pfsense (guest) /boot/loader.conf
. Btw, I know this could be construed as a pfSense question, but, seeing as this is about loader.conf
, it is a FreeBSD question and thus, some of the digital sorcerers of the forum might provide some insight, what is hw.hh.use_if_start
and hw.hh.vf_transparent
? I cannot find anything about them anywhere. Only result in Google is a line of code in GitHub, with no explanation whatsoever.Update 2
As expected, virtualized IO drivers had no effect. Will hail-Mary the
hw.hh.use_if_start
to 0.Update 3
Changing
hw.hh.use_if_start="1"
to hw.hh.use_if_start="0"
had no effect. I am now at a dead end.Update 4
OPNSense not viewing the NICs. Trying linux to see if it is a bhyve issue or a freebsd guest issue.
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