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OPNsense 22.7: interface is disabled due to unsupported sfp on a 10G port, and the Linux ixgbe tunable does not apply

After upgrading OPNsense from the 21.x series to 22.7 a 10G SFP+ port stopped working with interface is disabled due to unsupported sfp; the newer Intel driver actively disables unrecognised modules. The poster tried to set ixgbe.allowunsupportedsfp=1 as a system tunable, which was not accepted…

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OPNsense on a budget C3758R appliance: four ix interfaces, SFP+ ports show down with an RJ45 module

On an inexpensive firewall appliance (Intel Atom C3758R, six 1GbE igc ports and two SFP+ cages wired to the CPU) OPNsense showed four ix interfaces instead of two and the SFP+ ports stayed red/down with a copper SFP+ RJ45 module, although the link LEDs lit. ifconfig -v identified ix0/ix1 as the…

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Where to set hw.ix.unsupported_sfp=1 on a Netgate XG-7100 with third-party optics (loader.conf.local vs GUI tunables)

The poster had third-party SFP+ optics for both the on-board Intel X553 ports of a Netgate XG-7100 and an add-in X520-DA2 and had found that hw.ixgbe.unsupportedsfp=1 in /boot/loader.conf enables them. Questions: does it apply to both on-board and PCIe Intel ports, what is the difference between…

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