CHR 7.6 Driver for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)

RouterOS Virtualization
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Hello,

We use CHR V7.6 on VMware, we need use PCIE Passthrough network adapter from CISCO UCS server(Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)).
Now we have problem with compability this card on our CHR.
Our CHR does not see additional Ethernet interfaces(only VMXNET3 Ethernet adapters).
Does CHR support such Ethernet cards correctly?

system/resource/pci/print
...
40  03:00.0  VMware             VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller (rev: 1)                11
41  04:00.0  VMware             VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller (rev: 1)                11
42  05:00.0  Cisco Systems Inc  VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)                          9
43  0b:00.0  VMware             PVSCSI SCSI Controller (rev: 2)                     10
44  0c:00.0  Cisco Systems Inc  VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)                         11
45  13:00.0  VMware             VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller (rev: 1)                 9
46  14:00.0  Cisco Systems Inc  VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)                          9
47  1b:00.0  VMware             VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller (rev: 1)                 5
48  1c:00.0  Cisco Systems Inc  VIC Ethernet NIC (rev: 162)                         11
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Cisco VIC Ethernet is what exactly?

What card is it and what chipset? Broadcom? Intel etc?

What speed is it? 1Gb, 10Gb, 100Gb?

CHRs have limited driver support. It’s quite possible that the driver you are looking for is not in the CHR kernel. Also the CHR kernel is not modular so it’s not possible to add a driver.

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It looks like this interface is supported in Linux via a driver called “enic”, which I don’t believe is included in RouterOS. MikroTik developers would have to be the one to build and include the driver within RouterOS; as elbob2002 mentions, you cannot install 3rd-party drivers on top of RouterOS.

In the future you really should do “print detail” in “/system/resource/pci” so that vendor-id and device-id are included in the output. Way easier to figure out what card you’re talking about when we have those values to key off of.