ixgbe vs mxge

Kip Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 1 18:18:04 PDT 2008


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On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Brian McGinty <brian.mcginty at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know nothing about mxge so I can't comment, but I know that
> FreeBSD ixgbe driver is not even close to that of the Linux version. I
> switched to Linux just for ixgbe as our network was being standardized
> on 10G, and I think that's the best bet. The Linux version of the
> driver is actively worked on and I got a lot of help and bug fixes
> from the maintainers of the driver, whereas the FreeBSD driver is
> hopelessly neglected and broken.
>
> Brian
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mihail Balikov <mgb.fbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to setup 10gbit bridge on FreeBSD7 , but I'm little bit
>> confused which vendor to choose for the NICs.
>> Can you send me some feed back?
>>
>> regards,
>> Mihail Balikov
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