I recently purchased a Supermicro 5018D-FN8T to serve as a PFSense firewall for a 1GBE symmetrical ISP connection. This connection is presented to me as a bare fiber connector--no vendor equipment onsite--just mine, so I need to connect via an SFP or SFP+ with a 1000Base-LX transceiver. I have latest Bios installed and latest PFSense (2.4.5-RELEASE-p1).
My issue is that I need to use one of the SFP+ interfaces in 1Gb mode. I have tried installing a 1Gb SFP fiber module in the SFP+ slot and connecting it to a matching SFP transceiver in a 1G HP-1920-24G switch, but the link shows "no carrier".
I then purchased, from fs.com an SFP+ transceiver that is configured to act as an Avago AFCT-701SDZ-IN1. I selected this because the Intel readme file for the Freebsd Intel ix driver lists this as one of the supported transceivers, and claims it supports dual rate 1G/10G. I think Avago makes the ones Intel sells.
Does anyone know how I can make this work, with either an SFP transceiver or by forcing a 10Gb transciever to 1Gb?
Thanks!
My issue is that I need to use one of the SFP+ interfaces in 1Gb mode. I have tried installing a 1Gb SFP fiber module in the SFP+ slot and connecting it to a matching SFP transceiver in a 1G HP-1920-24G switch, but the link shows "no carrier".
I then purchased, from fs.com an SFP+ transceiver that is configured to act as an Avago AFCT-701SDZ-IN1. I selected this because the Intel readme file for the Freebsd Intel ix driver lists this as one of the supported transceivers, and claims it supports dual rate 1G/10G. I think Avago makes the ones Intel sells.
However, when I configure this interface in the PFSense GUI, it does not show an option for 1Gb. It only shows 10Gb and autoselect.Avago DUAL RATE 1G/10G SFP+ LR (No Bail) AFCT-701SDZ-IN1
Does anyone know how I can make this work, with either an SFP transceiver or by forcing a 10Gb transciever to 1Gb?
Thanks!