https://redmine.pfsense.org/https://redmine.pfsense.org/favicon.ico?16780521162022-05-29T14:11:16ZpfSense bugtrackerpfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=614832022-05-29T14:11:16ZMarcos M
<ul><li><strong>Subject</strong> changed from <i>Document link speed limitations with igc and ix</i> to <i>Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100</i></li></ul> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=615182022-05-31T07:44:57ZJim Pingle
<ul></ul><p>Has that been tested and confirmed? I remember some discussion around that back when the driver was first brought in, but I don't recall if anyone confirmed it to be the case and I'm not turning up anything specific when searching on slack.</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=615882022-05-31T16:31:47ZMarcos M
<ul></ul><p>It's been tested by a customer, along with SW and CL.</p>
<p>At best, the ix and igc ports on <strong>both</strong> the 6100 and 4100 will fail back to autoselect if they are hard-set, linking at whichever speed is auto-negotiated. If the other side is hard-set, the ports will fail in different ways, but the result is the same - traffic will not flow.</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=616062022-05-31T17:53:33ZChris Linstruth
<ul></ul><p>Which makes this language on the pfSense interface config pages, though correct, probably in need of some adjustment for these devices:</p>
<pre>
Explicitly set speed and duplex mode for this interface.
WARNING: MUST be set to autoselect (automatically negotiate speed) unless the port this interface connects to has its speed and duplex forced.
</pre> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=621952022-07-15T08:03:31ZJim Pingle
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>Jim Pingle</i></li></ul> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622062022-07-15T09:23:49ZJim Pingle
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>New</i> to <i>In Progress</i></li></ul> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622072022-07-15T09:35:32ZJim Pingle
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>In Progress</i> to <i>Feedback</i></li><li><strong>% Done</strong> changed from <i>0</i> to <i>100</i></li></ul><p>Note added: <a class="external" href="https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/05b5a002a9ecf6915681b90c4f75bf49248dcc1d">https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/05b5a002a9ecf6915681b90c4f75bf49248dcc1d</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-4100/io-ports.html#networking-ports">https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-4100/io-ports.html#networking-ports</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-6100/io-ports.html#networking-ports">https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-6100/io-ports.html#networking-ports</a></p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622672022-07-15T15:31:13ZMarcos M
<ul></ul><p>Note looks good, however when we tested this, the issue happened on the <code>ix</code> ports as well (see <a href="#note-3">#note-3</a>).</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622822022-07-18T08:05:44ZJim Pingle
<ul></ul><p>Marcos M wrote in <a href="#note-8">#note-8</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Note looks good, however when we tested this, the issue happened on the <code>ix</code> ports as well (see <a href="#note-3">#note-3</a>).</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All ix or just ix on 4100/6100? If only on 4100/6100, is it just the copper/RJ45 combo ports, or all ix ports on the 6100? Since the SFP would be locked to the speed of the module it's not clear how it might behave if the fiber module supports multiple speeds on the 10G SFP ports of the 6100. I'm curious if anyone has testing the behavior on SFP with a 1G/10G module on both ends and trying to force it to 1G. The GUI does offer a choice of limiting the media speed like it does for traditional ports.</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622852022-07-18T13:50:27ZMarcos M
<ul></ul><p>For ix, it's the same on the 4100/5100/6100. I only see testing history on the RJ-45 ix ports, not SFP.</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622872022-07-18T15:10:07ZJim Pingle
<ul></ul><p>This should be better now:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/ce3288bce4b70211f1296deddaa2c51a76c3927b">https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/ce3288bce4b70211f1296deddaa2c51a76c3927b</a></p>
<p>While there I also added notes about copper SFPs:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/2e583df39e401b2821d109b5359c47deee46c248">https://gitlab.netgate.com/docs/pfsense-platforms/-/commit/2e583df39e401b2821d109b5359c47deee46c248</a></p>
<p>(Which replaced some items in an alternate branch I cleaned up).</p> pfSense Docs - Todo #13236: Document link speed limitations with igc and ix on 6100/4100https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13236?journal_id=622882022-07-18T16:06:23ZMarcos M
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Feedback</i> to <i>Resolved</i></li></ul><p>Looks good, thanks!</p>