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Re: Driver support for Intel I225/I226 Ethernet adapters



		Hi Greg, (everyone)

> On 21 Jan 2025, at 19:26, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> 
>> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 17:01:25 +0900 (1 year, 15 weeks, 5 days ago)
> 
> I guess it's been longer than I thought!
> 
>> I've committed igc(4) driver for Intel I225 and I226 series NICs with
>> one-week delay ;)
>> 
>> As noted in the commit log, it is still experimental; it lacks some
>> logic for minor error
>> handling paths, but it works almost fine for both LP64/ILP32 and
>> big-/little-endian.
> 
> How is this working, and are these still the caveats?  The CVS logs
> don't seem to show big changes -- more like some rough edges and bugs
> fixed.

I did not notice any caveats; on my system:

> # ifconfig -v igc0                                                                                                                                                                                                                       igc0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         capabilities=0x3ff00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx>
>         capabilities=0x3ff00<UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx,TCP6CSUM_Tx>
>         capabilities=0x3ff00<UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx>
>         enabled=0
>         ec_capabilities=0x7<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU>
>         ec_enabled=0
>         address: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>         linkstate: up
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (2.5GBASE-T full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause)
>         status: active
>         input: 9445368 packets, 6693779031 bytes, 29 multicasts
>         output: 2973235 packets, 207568939 bytes, 12 multicasts

There is a second igc interface on this machine, which I am not
currently using.

This is 80 days since the last reboot, which I performed after an
update.

Source: $NetBSD: if_igc.c,v 1.3.2.5 2024/06/21 10:54:50 martin Exp $

> Is anyone using this driver in an always-on mode, and is it reliable?

So yes, and so far yes. (Thanks for that!)

> Is anyone using this on a Protectli box, e.g.
>  https://protectli.com/product/vp2420/
> 
> Does this seem like a crazy plan, or ok, for one's home router?

Cheers & HTH,
-- 
khorben

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