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Intel i210 ethernet Driver x86

Tue Jun 19, 2018 1:28 pm

Hello, in the company that I work we have several servers with RouterOS, and unfortunately a couple of days ago one of them died, a System x3550 M4, and the repair will take many days. So I decided to try putting the disk where RouterOS is installed on a Lenovo Thinkserver RD450 server, with the surprise that the license disappeared and the Softid changed. And most importantly, I did not recognize the network interfaces that have "Intel i210" chipset. I wanted to go to the contact form, but I can not download support.rif since I do not have connectivity on that server. Is there any possibility in the first instance to get a version of RouterOS with the drivers for "Intel i210"?

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Re: Intel i210 ethernet Driver x86

Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:56 pm

Probably not the answer you're looking for but you can always go the hypervisor route and run your CHR as VMs. They would be a lot more portable during outages and avoid the need for drivers for every product baked into RouterOS.

ESXi is free but management can get hard at scale. Alternatively solutions like KVM are free. I think Hyper-V can be run for free but MS licensing is confusing.
 
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Re: Intel i210 ethernet Driver x86

Tue Jan 28, 2020 3:02 pm

Any update?
 
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Re: Intel i210 ethernet Driver x86

Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:46 pm

There are reports that ROS v7 (it's in public beta now) has better support for modern NICs ...