Raymond Reading that I see the possibility that you could have a bad unit. Verifying with another unit would be great to confirm. Personally I would use something like https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/Mini-ITX/SYS-E300-9A.cfm where the supply chain can get me parts faster for scale and repair. I just wish these devices would come with some magical industry standard secured DC power connector.
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Raymond Burkholder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A number of people have been suggesting Lanner boxes for routing. I have > used FW-7543A and FW-7573A boxes with Debian with no issues. > > I am currently trying the NCA-5510 model with NCS2-IGM806B (XL710) and > NCS2-IXM407A (I350) cards with a standard Debian Stretch installation. > > I was hoping that it would be as easy as installing the operating system, > turning ports up, and getting a working network. It was like that with the > other models. Not with this model. There seems to be a bunch of different > BIOS combinations which give different (bad) results. And for the > combinations I've tried, I can't seem to get the XL710 card to work > properly. Maybe I should have gone with the 82599 card instead. > > In addition, the I210 based management port also isn't coming up properly, > always some sort 'interface reset' error. Which, with some bios settings, > I > get on the I350 cards as well. > > If someone has a similar model and/or configuration, what sort of > BIOS/Kernel settings have you used to get something operationally stable? > Any particular Kernel versions work best? I tried 4.9.51, and 4.14.3. > > It seems to take about 48 hours to get turn arounds from Taiwan > engineering, > which I am currently trying to escalate from a sales office, but was > hoping, > in the meantime, someone else might have some experiences to share? > > I can provide console / kernel messages to show what I am encountering for > those interested. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- - Andrew "lathama" Latham -
