which 10GE cards are supported by FreeBSD ?

Vlad Galu dudu at dudu.ro
Sat Sep 24 18:28:19 UTC 2011


On Sep 24, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> does anyone know know which 10GE cards are supported by FreeBSD,
> either natively or using third-party drivers ?  I am asking because
> i would like to add netmap support to the drivers, see
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
> 

Hello Luigi,

Myricom's 10G is supported by mxge(4). They ship a proprietary firmware that implements a high performance packet send/receive API. I've been using it for some time with good results. However, it would be great if we had an open source equivalent in the tree.

Regards
Vlad


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