netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] The difference between linux kernel driver and FreeBSD's with Intel X533

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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:50:14 +0300
From: Skyler Mäntysaari <sm+lists@...m.fi>
To: "Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] The difference between linux kernel driver and FreeBSD's
 with Intel X533



On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 18:33, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> On 10/4/2023 10:08 AM, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> It seems that for reasons unknown to me, my Intel X533 based 10G SFP+
>>>> doesn't want to work with kernel 6.1.55 in VyOS 1.4 nor Debian 12 but
>>>> it does in OPNsense which is based on FreeBSD 13.2.
>>>>
>>>> How would I go about debugging this properly? Both sides see light,
>>>> but no link unless I'm using FreeBSD.
>> https://forum.vyos.io/t/10g-sfp-trouble-with-linking-intel-x553/12253/11?u=samip537
>
> Hi Skyler,
>
> Response from Intel team:
>
> In the ethtool -m output pasted I see TX and RX optical power is fine.
> Could you request fault status on both sides? Just want to check if link
> is down because we are at local-fault or link partner is at local-fault.
>
> rmmod ixgbe
> modprobe ixgbe
> ethtool -S eth0 | grep fault
>
> Since it is 10G, if our side TX is ON (power level says it is) then we
> should expect link partner RX to be locked so cannot be at Local Fault.
>
> Skyler, please gather that ethtool -S data for us.
>
> Jesse
>
>
>
> 

Hi Jesse,

As the other side of the link is an Juniper, I'm not quite sure how I would gather the same data from it as it doesn't have ethtool?

I have also somewhat given up hope on it working on VyOS and instead I am using OPNsense for the moment but I still have VyOS installed as well.

Skyler