RTL8153 Compile
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@gskger Changing the MTU didn't help unfortunately
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I don't remember we bundle anything for Windows, @stormi ?
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@olivierlambert up to XCP-ng 8.1 we had the installer for management agent in a
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HOLY MOLY! I think I fixed it by disabling TCP offloading according to this article:
Internet works without ssl/tls errors! I'm going to check right away if I can get the 2.5Gbit speeds!
EDIT: As of now I get 1.70 Gbits/sec with an Iperf3 test, this is amazing! Not getting the full speed is probably because of VM overhead or the cat5E cables who aren't that shiny anymore.
I want to thank you all for taking the time to help! It must be a pain sometimes! Especially people who revive old threads. BUT I can finally follow my VirtualMachine dreams I had planned for a long time. You guys are amazing, I've been using Xcp-NG for a year and there will be many more years to come!
Merry Christmas! And I hope this thread will help a lot more xcp-ng fans!
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I think we might document this in our doc, maybe in the troubleshooting section! -
@olivierlambert said in RTL8153 Compile:
Nice
I think we might document this in our doc, maybe in the troubleshooting section!Agreed. @jokurinopoloski, could you try to contribute something to the https://xcp-ng.org/docs/troubleshooting.html page? ("Help us to improve this page!" link at the bottom)
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@stormi I will try and look into that tomorrow! Thanks guys
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That would be wonderful and also helpful for other people having the same issue
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@olivierlambert Created a pull request on this matter, I hope it's properly described.
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@jokurinopoloski I reviewed your PR!
Thanks for the contribution
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Apologies for the bump of an old topic, but is anyone aware of the existence of an updated r8152 driver that will support the r8156 (2.5gbe) chipset within xcp-ng?
I can download the driver source from realtek directly, but am not 100% on how to compile it and then have xcp-ng use it in preference to the existing driver.
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A topic for @Andrew I think ^^
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@FilHarr @olivierlambert Sure, I'll give it a go.
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@FilHarr The new realtek driver builds and loads.... I'll give it a try this weekend when my new USB adapter arrives.
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@Andrew That sounds encouraging! Happy to help out by doing some testing if that's a) possible and b) would assist.
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@FilHarr I have the driver built and working, but I have a USB naming problem that is not safely resolved by the previous workaround method so I have not finished testing. Looks like they will be adding the new 5Gb NICs soon.
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@Andrew I eventually managed to get v2.17.1 of the realtek driver compiled and loaded. I have an RTL8153 and an RTL8156 based USB adapter connected to my host device which are both being correctly identified (took me a while to work out how to get the updated kernel module to load on boot but figured it out in the end). Have added both networks to a VM and everything seems to be working ok (transfer speeds are as expected).
What is the issue you're seeing with the USB naming? I already had the RTL8153 USB working with the default driver and a rename rule in '70-persistent-net.rules'. Added a similar rule for the RTL8156 USB and both renames seem to be surviving reboots with the updated 2.17.1 driver.
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@FilHarr The USB renaming rule works if I have one USB adapter... so I guess it's good enough for now.
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@Andrew but just to understand: did you do something else apart recompiling the r8152 project?
