Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller

RouterOS General
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Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller

Is this supported, or going to be supported?
It’s becoming quite a popular Lan-on-Motherboard for some embedded solutions now.
ports don’t show up in 3.30 or 4.0 beta 4.

Regards

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please make supout.rif and send to support@mikrotik.com

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Sure - we’ll do that and send it ASAP today.

Regards

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Sent - based on ROS 3.30

Look forward to feedback,

Regards

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Intel 82574L still not working in 4.3 it seems.
Not sure what’s up here

[edit] under system>respources, PCI tab, all interfaces showing as “unknown device”

I’ll send a supout.rif to tech support

Regards

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I have contacted technical support , several times concerning Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller, actually from May 2009, The replies i got so far were: " we will support it soon in the next release.." , well i am a loyal customer of Mikrotik products buying several licenses,i feel a little bit uncomfortable with this kind of support, From May 2009 i have an atom based motherboard which i cant use it with Mikrotik. Is it so difficult to add to linux kernel 2.6.24, support for Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller ?.The driver exists , it just of a matter of integration.

Probably I have no obsession with the above driver, many except me , have boards with this Ethernet controller.

I don’t want to flame nobody, BUT, at least clarify if you intend to add support for this controller

I hope someone from technical support will listen to me seriously and do something about it

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Normis said, that new kernel will be used only in v5… new kernel = new drivers :frowning:

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You’re not alone. I feel the same way about Mikrotik support. Quite honestly, I’m getting tired of “waiting for next release”. I too spent 17 emails (stating exactly what my issue was in each email), just to find out they admitted a problem and said “will fix in next release”. Come to find out, it took 3+ releases to fix it. I wish Mikrotik would please please please put some quality assurance into their software (just test it at least)!

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We always test what we fix or make. Sometimes your configuration is different, or you have some specific setup, which makes it not work completely. We test as well as we can, and sometimes we give customers a pre-release build so they can test if it works now.

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I’ve asked for a “pre-release” a couple of times, as I would like to figure out bugs, and stable-ize things. I am willing to test a “pre-release”, but I’ve never been granted access to one, though I’ve asked.

Mikrotik, it’s a known fact that things break almost every couple releases. I’m just asking that some “more” QA go into a release. I’m saying this out of experience (started in v2.9.(43 ?), to v4.1.

v2.x and early v3.x seemed to have good stability for me.

I just can’t upgrade anymore without something breaking. I understand config, but still, as a user, something broke, and I have to go in and troubleshoot to fix the problem, which means network downtime.

Anyway, keep working on it. Btw, any chance of v5 beta release? Maybe put Lua back in v5 so I can learn the scripting language? It sounds like Mikrotik scripting will have so much more power with Lua.

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Anything has changed? I have bought router with those cards, and I want install MT on it. Any chances?

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Any chance this controller will be supported soon in RouterOS?

If not or if you guys say it’s planned for the version 5.0, it’s ok. Just tell us, we’re planning to invest on some industrial motherboard and we need this information to decide.

Regards
Gokalp

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we have a testing version with new intel drivers. it’s not v4.6

the intel 82574L cards work in this version. no release date is set.

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Hi Normis, your answer is pretty clear but again i’ve to ask one more time since we’re really on the edge for this. We’re working on a project which is built on RouterOS (+ a specific KVM virtual machine) and our vendor of network appliances manufacture devices based on 82574L. We do tests with linux kvm + routeros inside it and have really good results about the appliances. But this is not the way we prefer to go. We need RouterOS as the base of our project.

So even saying end of the first quarter or end of april as a release date will be a good news for our project.

Any possibilities on that?

Thanks
Gokalp

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It appears as thou support for this card is in 5.0beta1 however does anyone know if it’ll work with v4.7 or the newly released v4.8?

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omega-00, did you get the card working in 5.0betax?

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Yes, I can confirm this card works under both 5.0beta1 and 5.0beta2.

[admin@Testbox] /system resource pci> print 
 # DEVICE   VENDOR                   NAME                                                                IRQ              
 1 05:00.0  Intel Corporation        82574L Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 0)             11        
 2 04:00.0  Intel Corporation        82574L Gigabit Network Connection (rev: 0)             10

Would you like me to send through a supout with my current configuration showing it?

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omega-00,
One user reported that card does not work with 4.9/5.0beta2.
Perhaps he have different revision card.
Thank you for the feedback.

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5.0b2 Working with my server too.
But incorrect order interface number.
I’m using 6 port GbE Network server
Now server port 1 it show eth6

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5.02 beta was smooth for me on all makes, including integration with my custom dvd burning interface. Not once did it interfere with my business continuity and high availability features of my business. This is the type of upgrade that truly makes a difference. thanks for putting in the hard work guys.