Hello All I have tried to fully pass through one of my ports on a 4port 1gb PCI-E NIC (BCM5719 ).
Trying with OpenBSD 7.4, it can 'see' the NIC but it doesn't appear to get traffic, also appears to state 'No Media' as shown below (dmesg). bge0 at pci11 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5719" rev 0x01, BCM5719 A1 (0x5719001), APE firmware NCSI 1.5.33.0: msi, address 30:e1:71:6c:ce:2a bge0: no PHY found! Looking via ifconfig: bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 30:e1:71:6c:ce:2a index 1 priority 0 llprio 3 media: Ethernet manual (none) If you change OS out for say Debian 12, it has no issue using the PCI-passThru device. Only other NIC I have is BCM57840 and it doesn't appear to be recognised (HPE 536FLB). dmesg below "Broadcom BCM57840" rev 0x11 at pci11 dev 0 function 0 not configured. tester# dmesg OpenBSD 7.4 (RAMDISK_CD) #1322: Tue Oct 10 09:07:38 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD real mem = 4277010432 (4078MB) avail mem = 4143362048 (3951MB) random: good seed from bootblocks mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xe0010 (242 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version "6.00" date 11/12/2020 bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 4.0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP BOOT APIC MCFG SRAT HPET WAET acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz, 2596.62 MHz, 06-4f-01 cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,PCLMUL,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV,NXE,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,TSC_ADJUST,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,MD_CLEAR,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,ARAT,RSBA,SKIP_L1DFL,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way I-cache, 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache, 35MB 64b/line 20-way L3 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 65MHz cpu at mainbus0: not configured ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpipci0 at acpi0 PCI0: 0x00000000 0x00000011 0x00000001 acpicmos0 at acpi0 "PNP0A05" at acpi0 not configured "ACPI0003" at acpi0 not configured acpicpu at acpi0 not configured cpu0: using VERW MDS workaround pvbus0 at mainbus0: VMware pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x08 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR00, 1.00> removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured "VMware VMCI" rev 0x10 at pci0 dev 7 function 7 not configured vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware SVGA II" rev 0x00 vga1: aperture needed wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb1 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VMware PCI" rev 0x02 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 vmwpvs0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "VMware PVSCSI" rev 0x02: msi scsibus1 at vmwpvs0: 65 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <VMware, Virtual disk, 2.0> sd0: 15360MB, 512 bytes/sector, 31457280 sectors ppb3 at pci0 dev 21 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 21 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 ppb5 at pci0 dev 21 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 ppb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci7 at ppb6 bus 7 ppb7 at pci0 dev 21 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci8 at ppb7 bus 8 ppb8 at pci0 dev 21 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci9 at ppb8 bus 9 ppb9 at pci0 dev 21 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci10 at ppb9 bus 10 ppb10 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci11 at ppb10 bus 11 bge0 at pci11 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5719" rev 0x01, BCM5719 A1 (0x5719001), APE firmware NCSI 1.5.33.0: msi, address 30:e1:71:6c:ce:2a bge0: no PHY found! ppb11 at pci0 dev 22 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci12 at ppb11 bus 12 ppb12 at pci0 dev 22 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci13 at ppb12 bus 13 ppb13 at pci0 dev 22 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci14 at ppb13 bus 14 ppb14 at pci0 dev 22 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci15 at ppb14 bus 15 ppb15 at pci0 dev 22 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci16 at ppb15 bus 16 ppb16 at pci0 dev 22 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci17 at ppb16 bus 17 ppb17 at pci0 dev 22 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci18 at ppb17 bus 18 ppb18 at pci0 dev 23 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci19 at ppb18 bus 19 vmx0 at pci19 dev 0 function 0 "VMware VMXNET3" rev 0x01: msix, 1 queue, address 00:50:56:bf:10:b7 ppb19 at pci0 dev 23 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci20 at ppb19 bus 20 ppb20 at pci0 dev 23 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci21 at ppb20 bus 21 ppb21 at pci0 dev 23 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci22 at ppb21 bus 22 ppb22 at pci0 dev 23 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci23 at ppb22 bus 23 ppb23 at pci0 dev 23 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci24 at ppb23 bus 24 ppb24 at pci0 dev 23 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci25 at ppb24 bus 25 ppb25 at pci0 dev 23 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci26 at ppb25 bus 26 ppb26 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci27 at ppb26 bus 27 ppb27 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci28 at ppb27 bus 28 ppb28 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci29 at ppb28 bus 29 ppb29 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci30 at ppb29 bus 30 ppb30 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci31 at ppb30 bus 31 ppb31 at pci0 dev 24 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci32 at ppb31 bus 32 ppb32 at pci0 dev 24 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci33 at ppb32 bus 33 ppb33 at pci0 dev 24 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci34 at ppb33 bus 34 isa0 at mainbus0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! syncing disks... done rebooting... OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP <http://generic.mp/>) #1397: Tue Oct 10 09:02:37 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP <http://generic.mp/> real mem = 4277010432 (4078MB) avail mem = 4127662080 (3936MB) random: good seed from bootblocks mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xe0010 (242 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version "6.00" date 11/12/2020 bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 4.0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S1 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP BOOT APIC MCFG SRAT HPET WAET acpi0: wakeup devices PCI0(S3) USB_(S1) P2P0(S3) S1F0(S3) S2F0(S3) S8F0(S3) S16F(S3) S18F(S3) S22F(S3) S23F(S3) S24F(S3) S25F(S3) PE40(S3) S1F0(S3) PE50(S3) S1F0(S3) [...] acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz, 2597.05 MHz, 06-4f-01 cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,PCLMUL,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV,NXE,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,TSC_ADJUST,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,MD_CLEAR,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,ARAT,RSBA,SKIP_L1DFL,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way I-cache, 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache, 35MB 64b/line 20-way L3 cache cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 8 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 66MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz, 2597.52 MHz, 06-4f-01 cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,PCLMUL,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,HV,NXE,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,ABM,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,TSC_ADJUST,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RDSEED,ADX,SMAP,MD_CLEAR,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,ARAT,RSBA,SKIP_L1DFL,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN cpu1: 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way I-cache, 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache, 35MB 64b/line 20-way L3 cache cpu1: smt 0, core 0, package 2 ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 acpimcfg0: addr 0xf0000000, bus 0-127 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpipci0 at acpi0 PCI0: 0x00000000 0x00000011 0x00000001 acpicmos0 at acpi0 "PNP0A05" at acpi0 not configured acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) acpicpu1 at acpi0: C1(@1 halt!) cpu0: using VERW MDS workaround pvbus0 at mainbus0: VMware vmt0 at pvbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x08 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR00, 1.00> removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08: SMBus disabled "VMware VMCI" rev 0x10 at pci0 dev 7 function 7 not configured vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware SVGA II" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb1 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VMware PCI" rev 0x02 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 vmwpvs0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "VMware PVSCSI" rev 0x02: msi scsibus2 at vmwpvs0: 65 targets sd0 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <VMware, Virtual disk, 2.0> sd0: 15360MB, 512 bytes/sector, 31457280 sectors ppb3 at pci0 dev 21 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 21 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 ppb5 at pci0 dev 21 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 ppb6 at pci0 dev 21 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci7 at ppb6 bus 7 ppb7 at pci0 dev 21 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci8 at ppb7 bus 8 ppb8 at pci0 dev 21 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci9 at ppb8 bus 9 ppb9 at pci0 dev 21 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci10 at ppb9 bus 10 ppb10 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci11 at ppb10 bus 11 bge0 at pci11 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5719" rev 0x01, BCM5719 A1 (0x5719001), APE firmware NCSI 1.5.33.0: msi, address 30:e1:71:6c:ce:2a bge0: no PHY found! ppb11 at pci0 dev 22 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci12 at ppb11 bus 12 ppb12 at pci0 dev 22 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci13 at ppb12 bus 13 ppb13 at pci0 dev 22 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci14 at ppb13 bus 14 ppb14 at pci0 dev 22 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci15 at ppb14 bus 15 ppb15 at pci0 dev 22 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci16 at ppb15 bus 16 ppb16 at pci0 dev 22 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci17 at ppb16 bus 17 ppb17 at pci0 dev 22 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci18 at ppb17 bus 18 ppb18 at pci0 dev 23 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci19 at ppb18 bus 19 vmx0 at pci19 dev 0 function 0 "VMware VMXNET3" rev 0x01: msix, 2 queues, address 00:50:56:bf:10:b7 ppb19 at pci0 dev 23 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci20 at ppb19 bus 20 ppb20 at pci0 dev 23 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci21 at ppb20 bus 21 ppb21 at pci0 dev 23 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci22 at ppb21 bus 22 ppb22 at pci0 dev 23 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci23 at ppb22 bus 23 ppb23 at pci0 dev 23 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci24 at ppb23 bus 24 ppb24 at pci0 dev 23 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci25 at ppb24 bus 25 ppb25 at pci0 dev 23 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci26 at ppb25 bus 26 ppb26 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci27 at ppb26 bus 27 ppb27 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci28 at ppb27 bus 28 ppb28 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci29 at ppb28 bus 29 ppb29 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci30 at ppb29 bus 30 ppb30 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci31 at ppb30 bus 31 ppb31 at pci0 dev 24 function 5 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci32 at ppb31 bus 32 ppb32 at pci0 dev 24 function 6 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci33 at ppb32 bus 33 ppb33 at pci0 dev 24 function 7 "VMware PCIE" rev 0x01: msi pci34 at ppb33 bus 34 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (771d02c67719a468.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b tester# *Bradley Latus*Systems Integration Specialist *M *(+61) 410 551 660 * P *(+61) 2 8099 9000 *F *(+61) 2 8099 9099 *W* www.jirotech.com Level 2, 546 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000