TPLINK TG-3468

Suwarna

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hello all,

so after have several network down on my onboard Intel NIC (watchdog time out), i browse online and bought TP-Link TG-3468 to try out without further research :( from some of the research, looks like freenas not support this realtek chipset NIC ? is it really no hope for this ?

anyway, during googling, i founded that actuall FreeBSD 12.1 already support this NIC, just thinking that FreeNAS also based on FreeBSD, is there any workaround way to make this NIC work ?


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HARDWARE
The re driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS,
RTL8168, RTL810xE and RTL8111 based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
adapters including:

+o Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+)
+o Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+)
+o Corega CG-LAPCIGT Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
+o D-Link DGE-528(T) Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
+o Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S)
+o LevelOne GNC-0105T (8169S)
+o LinkSys EG1032 (32-bit PCI)
+o PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS Inc. GN-1200TC (8169S)
+o TP-Link TG-3468 v2 Gigabit Ethernet (8168)
+o USRobotics USR997902 Gigabit Ethernet (8169S)
+o Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169)

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thanks for all input.
 

Samuel Tai

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Is this ethernet card still not supported even on TrueNas 13?

TrueNAS Core is constrained by what's supported by upstream FreeBSD. There is a more recent re driver in /boot/modules/. You can try running it by creating a loader tunable in System->Tunables if_re_load="YES" and then rebooting.

However, this has proven hit or miss, due to the poor design quality of these Realtek-based chips, and the usual recommendation is to replace this NIC with a proven Intel NIC.
 

true38nas

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TrueNAS Core is constrained by what's supported by upstream FreeBSD. There is a more recent re driver in /boot/modules/. You can try running it by creating a loader tunable in System->Tunables if_re_load="YES" and then rebooting.

However, this has proven hit or miss, due to the poor design quality of these Realtek-based chips, and the usual recommendation is to replace this NIC with a proven Intel NIC.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I will look for at least a non-Realtek ethernet card and hopefully an Intel within budget.
 

Ericloewe

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It's still going to be an absolutely sucky NIC, even if the suckiness is slightly reduced.
 

true38nas

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Update:
My friend took a chance on this NIC and I installed TrueNAS SCALE on his computer. The connection to/from it was really unstable, slow and it was almost impossible to get into the web portal. I first thought that the old Athlon CPU used was the cause. I do not remember why I did the following but I disabled IPv6 and suddenly all the mentioned issues were gone.
 

GUAGGIO

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TrueNAS Core is constrained by what's supported by upstream FreeBSD. There is a more recent re driver in /boot/modules/. You can try running it by creating a loader tunable in System->Tunables if_re_load="YES" and then rebooting.

However, this has proven hit or miss, due to the poor design quality of these Realtek-based chips, and the usual recommendation is to replace this NIC with a proven Intel NIC.
Hi all, could you explain better since I have the same card. I managed to get it to start both with a shell command, which however did not keep the settings on restart and therefore to be reissued, and by editing files in /boot/kernel.
 

Ericloewe

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