Hi, > ---------------------------------------- > From: Adam Thompson <[email protected]> > > You're largely correct, pfSense has - sometimes - issues with Broadcom NICs. > If you search the mailing list archives and the bug tracker you'll see a > number of reports/complaints. > Many of these issues have been fixed since the 1.x era, but there are still > occasional compatibility issues. > The NIC troubleshooting steps often resolve the issue (at least well enough > for daily use), but not always. IIRC, there are a couple modern Dell > PowerEdge servers (R700, maybe?) > that essentially can't be used with pfSense's NIC drivers at all. It's > possible your IBM is going to be another problematic platform until the > project releases a FreeBSD-9-based > version.
I can confirm that brand new Dell R610 won't work with stable release because of missing driver for the RAID controller. Devel snapshots of 2.1 work wrt disk controller, but requires some tweaks to /boot/loader.conf.local to fix network issues with Broadcom NIC's, as well as 4 ports Intel NICs... Once you've put the fixes in, network seems to work fine and the machine doesn't behave erratically. Although we're still doing tests and we complexify our setup each day : >15 vlans and 2 unrelated wan links (two sets of clients) all with carp failover, squid and so on, we're confident it now works as expected with this hardware. hth -- Jerome Alet _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
