I have plugged a new AQC113 NIC, XG-C100C V2 from Asus, which is a 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M/10M Base-T NIC
NIC can be recognized on dashboard, but link down.(see pic, 192.168.2.233)
Its possible that a future kernel update in a TN update may contain such drivers but its unlikley that IX will go out of their way to include them. Consider how likley they are to use such ethernet devices in their IX hardware…
Your choices are:
Hack TN Scale to include the drivers - not reccomended
Wait and see
Buy a “proper” NIC that they support - see @etorix 's post for details
LOL. I asked a firewall software vendor to add a NIC to their release and they put out a maintenance release with the kernel driver and it did just fine.
On a different vendor I asked about Aquantia support and they said they didn’t support it because it wasn’t included in Debian. They didn’t even know it (Atlantic) was built in to the Debian release but set to inactive at boot. I activated it and it worked just fine.
I get the appliance response about customer modifications, but adding a driver for a common NIC chipset is not that big of a deal if they use automation.