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new NIC support? Intel i210 / i211 / i217 & Atheros AR8161B

Hi, I'm eyeing a GigaByte GA-Z87N-WIFI motherboard for a project for a friend, and am wondering if the NICs would work in the UTM...

Other sites list them as:
1. Intel i217V
2. Atheros AR8161 or AR8161B
3. some intel wifi NIC

I know the wifi isn't supported, but am wondering about the other 2...

Atheros: Some sites say the Atheros needs some version of the atl1c or atl1e module; other sites say it needs the 'alx' module, which I don't see on 9.105 at least.

lspci -vv | grep Atheros
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

Intel: apparently current versions of the e1000e driver support this NIC, but it's not clear when the support was added, or if the UTM has a new enough module.

Also, does anyone know if these NICs perform well, and work for VLANs?

This is the only mini-ITX board I've seen with Haswell CPU support, and dual non-realtek NICs.
I know Jetway offers some Intel NIC add-on modules for some of their boards.

Thanks,
Barry

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0 RFCat_vk_01 over 11 years ago in reply to Jhaislet

Hi,
the issue is not the intel nic, but the Atheros one.

I have built a UTM in a vm esxi 5.1 box running e3-1275 v2 with 16gb, so yes I am aware of the that capability.

I don't agree with running a UTM in a VM environment for a real internet facing system, you are putting another layer of software on the outside of the protection system. Yes, I aware VM has its own secutity levels, but why risk it.
I just built a system running a i3-3220t which idles at 20w.

Ian
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0 BarryG over 11 years ago

Hi Ian,

Can you try the UTM Beta on your motherboard and see if the Atheros NIC is detected, and if not, please report it in the Beta forum?

Thanks!
Barry
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