Comments on: Intel X553 Networking and Proxmox VE 8.1.3 https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/ Server and Workstation Reviews Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Erik https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-583382 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:12:01 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-583382 @ Jack, you can achieve full speed in two directions with the latest Out-of-Tree driver from Intel. The problems you described were mostly due to driver issues…

]]> By: Jack https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-582631 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:09:11 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-582631 I’m having the same trouble. It does run hot as hell even if sensors is reporting the CPU at only 47 deg C. I bought some USB powered fans to sit on top and this is a game changer, suddenly the chassis is cool to the touch. That said. the 10G SFP ports thing is a mess, does not work in kernel 6.x without the new driver an for me I can get full speed in one direction and nothing in the other. I’ve tried 3 types of SFP+ RJ45 adaptors all the same. I’m now going to try SFP+ DAC adaptors just in case its a power issue as I have heard the RJ45 ones are power hungry. But its ridiculous, surely SFP ports should support whatever adapator.
This should work out of the box with common linux distributions. These are Intel NIC’s. If this doesn’t work out of the box with Debian / PFsense / Opnsense they shouldn’t be selling it.

]]> By: s-master https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-540912 Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:08:50 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-540912 @ Michael C
I’m having the same issue. In one way I can max out the 10gig with iperf. In reverse I only get about 3-4gig/s.

]]> By: Bastian https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-533973 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:59:28 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-533973 Do not forget the “make install” like I did.
Also see: https://www.servethehome.com/day-0-with-intel-atom-c3000-getting-nics-working/ for compiling the out-of-tree driver.
the current driver version is 5.19.9

]]> By: Bastian https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-533965 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:27:29 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-533965 Compiling newer modules is 1, but then keeping proxmox to use the module instead of the 2016 drivers is another problem.
dmesg | grep ixgbe
[ 2.217232] ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver
[ 2.217235] ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Intel Corporation.
Then I have to do rmmod ixgbe; modprobe ixgbe
Then it will use the new drivers, otherwise it doesn’t
[ 1143.203267] ixgbe: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing – tainting kernel
[ 1143.224239] Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express Linux Network Driver – version 5.19.9
[ 1143.224245] Copyright (C) 1999 – 2023 Intel Corporation
[ 1143.228687] ixgbe 0000:0b:00.0 0000:0b:00.0 (uninitialized): allow_unsupported_sfp Enabled
It is in /etc/modules

]]> By: Michael C https://www.servethehome.com/intel-x553-networking-and-proxmox-ve-8-1-3/#comment-528108 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:22:37 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75253#comment-528108 Looking for help… using C3758R unit with Proxmox 8.1.3. I got the latest Intel drivers for X553 installed and the 10G SFP or DAC are linking. If I run iperf3 3.10.1 (server) on my NAS machine and iperf3 3.12.0 (client) from the C3758R, I get ~9.3Gbps…

If I reverse the server/client, I’m only getting ~4Gbps… I also tried running 2x VM on the C3758, giving each solo access to a 10G port. When I iperf3 between them, again, the bandwidth seems to top out ~4Gbps.

what gives? is the C3758 just not able to iperf3 serve fast enough?

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