which 10GE cards are supported by FreeBSD ?

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 23:09:33 UTC 2011


On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Juli Mallett <jmallett at freebsd.org> wrote:
> It's actually not as trivial to grep for 10G NICs as
> implied, since some drivers have silly bugs, like ixgbe which sets
> if_baudrate to '1000000000' (i.e. 1 000 000 000).

I'm pretty sure that the bug is FreeBSD's.  if_baudrate is a u_long,
which isn't large enough to hold 10G on 32-bit platforms.


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