Intel x710-t2l Problems

wlp94114

I'm running a Dell r720 with:

2 LSI 9300s, both internal and external flavors, with 8 ssds attached to the internal 9300 and storage array attached to the external 9300, a pci-expander with 4 U.2 ssds, an Intel I-350 daughter card for DOM0 eth0 and VM interfaces, and and Intel X710-t2l running in a pfSense 2.8.1 for firewall/router.

The X710 is running nvram version 9.54 and XCP-ng's i40e driver, version 2.25.11. Throughput is almost nothing.

There is an Intel X710-da4 on its way.

I see at https://github.com/XCP-ng/xcp/wiki/Drivers there are updated versions available but have been unable to figure out how to access them.

At this point I feel stumped.

Your input would be appreciated.

Best regards

wlp94114

Booted the system using Windows 10 and did a speed test.

The systems down speed pegged Ookla's speed test.

olivierlambert

Hi,

Can you detail a bit more about the test you are doing? Frol the Dom0 or inside a VM? If the latter, which kind of VM?

wlp94114

@olivierlambert

Hi!

Thanks for your response.

When XCP-ng v8.3 is up and running, I have pfSense 2.8.1 running in a vm. An Ookla speed test shows 5.77mbps download speeds and 42.07mbps upload speeds.

I then booted the r720 with a Windows 10 disk I use for undating nics and ssds. Here Ookla shows speeds of 1.8gb

Comcast rates the link at 2.5gb

Intel's current driver is at version 2.28.9.

I'm currently checking out building the driver rabbit hole but am unable to locate kernel-devel-4.19.0+1.x86_64.rpm to build against.

Best regards

wlp94114

I feel I must add that I'm totally out of my depth here.

olivierlambert

Have you checked:

And for Pfsense: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/guides/pfsense/#3-disable-tx-checksum-offload