Recommendations for 10gbps NIC

[Boris Kochergin]

Thanks for everyone's input.

I ended up buying a Chelsio 420-CR. It works well, and with all four
existing 10GBASE-SR SFP+ modules I had lying around. I won't need the
the performance offered by netmap in the foreseeable future (at which
support for it may exist), so that was not critical. I had tried Intel
first, which resulted in this saga:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-June/035709.html. I
have not yet tested the SFP+ modules in the Intel card with -CURRENT,
because I'm not ready to upgrade the machine in question to -CURRENT.
Aside from allowing a wider variety of SFP+ modules in 9.x, the Chelsio
card also has the benefit of supporting hot-plugging of SFP+ modules.

-Boris

On 07/24/13 16:26, Boris Kochergin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am looking for recommendations for a 10gbps NIC from someone who has
> successfully used it on FreeBSD. It will be used on FreeBSD
> 9.1-R/amd64 to capture packets. Some desired features are:
>
> - PCIe
> - LC connectors
> - 10GBASE-SR
> - Either single- or dual-port
> - Multiqueue
>
> Specific part numbers would be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> -Boris