EFW Support

EFW 2.4

Can anyone recommend a PCI Express Quad port half-height NIC card that works with EFW?

I know for a fact that Intel cards work, but they are almost double the price of other 4-port NICs I've seen.

I have tried a StarTech.com ST1000SPEX4 with a chipset of Realtek RTL8111C, but it is not recognized by the kernel.

Thanks for the great support on this site....   :-\

Almost a year since I posted this with no responses.

FWIW - 2.5 same issue.

Linux is usually a do-it-by-yourself, esp. the community edition. You probably need to recompile the driver, or by luck having someone else with your very same problem that has the compiled drivers.

I use Intel Quad Port server cards, without a hitch. My uptimes are more than 60 days, and what usually break the uptime is power outage.
I can't recommend  quad ports NIC. I have had one and hangs up a lot, totally unreliable, don't remember the name.

If I should  some card for a firewall, I'd go for Intel or Broadcom, nothing else.
Unless you have a really limited budget, I prefer less money in my pocket and more peace of mind.

thanks,very much.

The  8111C card was troublesome with several linux's including 2.4, recognised as the other realtec card and hence no comms
but I can confirm they now work on 2.4.1 and upwards as well as many kernels
now above 2.6.3x

maybe worth a try, with 2.4.1

be aware a reload is needed and re-apply rules going from 2.4 to 2.41 because of the uuid problem.

unless you can fix it yourself after upgrade.

but 2.4. rules work no problem on 2.4.1 (more than i can say for 2.5.1 in my experience).

the intel cards are a much higher quality card then the realtec hence why they are so expensive.

and they are worth the extra money.



regards peter

Same issue with an Intel Quad Port - on EFW 2.5.1 -- Intel 82580 Rev01 (Intel Server Adapter I340-T4)

Shows in lspci, but doesn't show in ifconfig -a

Any suggestions?

Probably the igb drivers are not installed by default, but once you compile the drivers, they worked great.

Mine appears as:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
03:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

So the issue here is to compile the drivers for 2.5.1. I still use the 2.4.0, so I don't know if my drivers will work on 2.5.1.

I did a 'modprobe -a igb' and it loaded a module as seen in 'lsmod' but still no eth devices show in 'ifconfig -a'

My 'lsmod' appears as:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
01:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82580 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

I downloaded the igb-3.4.7.tar.gz from intel, but how am I supposed to compile this when EFW doesn't come with a compiler and I can't yum easily because of no network connections.

This is frustrating.