Dual-rate transceivers with ixgbe?

[Juli Mallett]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 19:56, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ ifconfig ix1
> ix1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

You need to bring the interface up in order for the SFP configuration to occur.

> # ifconfig ix1 down
> # ifconfig ix1 up
> # ifconfig ix1
> ix1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500