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Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Hi All,
I'm having some trouble finding infos on this online, so I thought I'd come here.
So we've ordered a nice new supermicro server here at work and are planning on running Proxmox on it (based on debian).
The installation went smooth, however I cannot get either of the NICs to work. They are listed by Supermicro as from the Intel C621 platform.
Debian lists them as Intel X722 Ethernet Controllers in lspci.
They are also both assigned interface names and are listed normally under ip addr, for example.
The problem is that I cannot get them to generate any traffic. I have double and triple checked the IP, Subnet, and Gateway settings. Those all seem to be correct. They even work when assigned to the IPMI port (on the same port on the switch). When connected to the regular NICs, however, I cannot see any traffic at all coming from them according to the switch.
Is this Intel platform maybe just not supported by Debian out of the box? Am I missing some other special drivers?
I am seeing the same behavior on a Kubuntu 18.10 live cd btw.
I'm having some trouble finding infos on this online, so I thought I'd come here.
So we've ordered a nice new supermicro server here at work and are planning on running Proxmox on it (based on debian).
The installation went smooth, however I cannot get either of the NICs to work. They are listed by Supermicro as from the Intel C621 platform.
Debian lists them as Intel X722 Ethernet Controllers in lspci.
They are also both assigned interface names and are listed normally under ip addr, for example.
The problem is that I cannot get them to generate any traffic. I have double and triple checked the IP, Subnet, and Gateway settings. Those all seem to be correct. They even work when assigned to the IPMI port (on the same port on the switch). When connected to the regular NICs, however, I cannot see any traffic at all coming from them according to the switch.
Is this Intel platform maybe just not supported by Debian out of the box? Am I missing some other special drivers?
I am seeing the same behavior on a Kubuntu 18.10 live cd btw.
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Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Better to ask the Proxmax Forum then... https://forum.proxmox.com/planning on running Proxmox on it
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
I have posted there as well and haven't heard anything yet unfortunately. Thats why I thought I'd go here and ask about general support under debian first.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
supermicro model number
2 x 10 Gb nics
nic name(s) if you can find it/them in dmesg, ifconfig etc
2 x 10 Gb nics
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uname -a
dmesg | grep i40e
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Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
one comment I've seen suggests putting heavy traffic on the wire
light loads and ping don't seem to show up
sourceforge has a firmware project
launchpad has a bugreport
intel has a support request
light loads and ping don't seem to show up
sourceforge has a firmware project
launchpad has a bugreport
intel has a support request
In memory of Ian Ashley Murdock (1973 - 2015) founder of the Debian project.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
I cant get online so its hard to work with anything thats not provided on the live cd.
Anyway so I threw in an ubuntu 18.10 server cd because I read it may work out of the box there, but no luck either.
ethtool -i enp96s0f0 outputted the following:
Heres a screenshot of the output of dmesg | grep i40e
Anyway so I threw in an ubuntu 18.10 server cd because I read it may work out of the box there, but no luck either.
ethtool -i enp96s0f0 outputted the following:
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driver: i40e
version: 2.3.2-k
firmware-version: 3.33 0x80000e48 1.1876.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:60:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Why ethtool -i ? The interesting information about link (layer 1) is not printed with -i.
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ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: off (auto)
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
drv probe link
Link detected: yes
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Whoops, my bad - heres the full ethtool output for the first port:
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Screenshots suck for many reasons. Please copy/paste plain text instead.
The launchpad bug llivv pointed to is interesting, did you investigate it?
The launchpad bug llivv pointed to is interesting, did you investigate it?
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
If you provide the mobo model -
we can see what supermicro tested so far
Ubuntu driver is XL710 firmware at 1Gb
see diff between x722 and x710
see also:
sourceforge.net + x722
trisquel 7.0 Belenos + x722
we can see what supermicro tested so far
Ubuntu driver is XL710 firmware at 1Gb
see diff between x722 and x710
see also:
sourceforge.net + x722
trisquel 7.0 Belenos + x722
In memory of Ian Ashley Murdock (1973 - 2015) founder of the Debian project.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Sorry for the late response, the motherboard is listed in the IPMI config web page as "X11DPi-N(T)".
Unfortunately I cannot copy / paste the plaintext as its running in a html5 kvm over the supermicro IPMI "remote control" page and this apparently doesnt allow copy and paste :/
I checked the launchpad bug report and while interesting, it seemed to be about a different issue. The author was having intermittent dropped connections / poor performance.
I am not able to get a connection going at all. Even my switch says there is never a single packet coming from the port.
I wil do some more googling for the recommended terms in the previous post, thanks for the suggestions.
Unfortunately I cannot copy / paste the plaintext as its running in a html5 kvm over the supermicro IPMI "remote control" page and this apparently doesnt allow copy and paste :/
I checked the launchpad bug report and while interesting, it seemed to be about a different issue. The author was having intermittent dropped connections / poor performance.
I am not able to get a connection going at all. Even my switch says there is never a single packet coming from the port.
I wil do some more googling for the recommended terms in the previous post, thanks for the suggestions.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
The text cannot be selected with mouse? What a user-unfriendly application.Unfortunately I cannot copy / paste the plaintext as its running in a html5 kvm over the supermicro IPMI "remote control" page and this apparently doesnt allow copy and paste :/
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Nope the whole "terminal" window is entirely unresponsive to mouse operations. Other than marking it as "active" so that you can begin typing in it.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Good idea - let me try that and get back to you.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
systemrescue cd was also unable to successfully send and receive any packets :/
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Time to contact Intel tech support then.
Going into guessing mode now. There is a bunch of PHY drivers in kernel, I usually leave them disabled, but in this case you may need one.
Edit: Also make sure all conditions mentioned here are met.
Going into guessing mode now. There is a bunch of PHY drivers in kernel, I usually leave them disabled, but in this case you may need one.
Edit: Also make sure all conditions mentioned here are met.
Re: Supermicro MB - Intel C621 / Intel X722 NIC - Supported?
Okay well thanks for the heads up - I will send Intel Support an email tomorrow.
What do you think about the idea of simply buying a PCI Network Card? We only have 2 onboard NICs (+ the IPMI Port - which works perfectly fine). So replacing the 2 onboard NICs with a 2 port PCI LAN Adapter shouldn't be too expensive. We don't need 10G or anything fancy. Just half height to fit in a 2U Server Case.
What do you think about the idea of simply buying a PCI Network Card? We only have 2 onboard NICs (+ the IPMI Port - which works perfectly fine). So replacing the 2 onboard NICs with a 2 port PCI LAN Adapter shouldn't be too expensive. We don't need 10G or anything fancy. Just half height to fit in a 2U Server Case.