Hi all

 

I'm currently running a Setup with Threadripper and the Asus ROG Zenith Extrem MB. Everything seems to work pretty well but the Network adapters.

 

MB Ethernet adapter

The internal ethernet adapter ( Intel® I211-AT) on the MB only seems to run with 100MBit when used and I suspect a missing driver.

Intel lists a Linux diver on their website: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/13663/Intel-Network-Adapter-Driver-for-82575-6-82580-I350-and-I210-211-Based-Gigabit-Network-Connections-for-Linux-?product=64404

I'm willing to try to install the driver manually on my system and test it but I couldn't find a description how to do so. It would be nice if this driver could be included into UnRaid.

 

PCI ethernet adapter

The MB ships with an extra 10 GB pci network adapter ROG AREION 10G (https://www.asus.com/ch-de/Motherboard-Accessory/ROG-AREION-10G/HelpDesk_Download/)

Currently im running the system on this adapter and it seems to work up to 1 GBit but sometimes crashes and I have to reboot the host to get it working again.

 

According to this post it seems to be an Aquantia AQtion(TM) AQC107 10Gb Ethernet Controller.

 

Happy to help or test

 

Thanks

Symon

 

It would surprize me if the intel driver is the limiting factor. What is the output of (assuming eth0 is your Intel port)

ethtool eth0

 

7 hours ago, bonienl said:

It would surprize me if the intel driver is the limiting factor. What is the output of (assuming eth0 is your Intel port)

ethtool eth0

 

Thank you for your help! You are right I tried it again just with the Intel port and I get 1 Gb now ...

I must have done something wrong with the bonding settings the last time or something else was different (last try was with UnRaid 6.4)

 

Right now I've set the bonding-mode to active-backup in the settings for eth0 (Intel) and chose the card as bond member. Is there any way to be sure that the Intel port is used for the connection by default in this mode? Or a way to check which one is active right now ?

4 minutes ago, Symon said:

Or a way to check which one is active right now ?

 

cat /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/active_slave

 

33 minutes ago, bonienl said:

 

cat /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/active_slave

 

Thank you again!

i211 is just a i210 with the "useful" stuff like vPRO disabled.  Basically Intel making a higher performing NIC for Joe Public out of a long established server NIC.  Same drivers work for the 211 as the 210.