Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe)

[Julian Stecklina]

Thus spake Marko Zec <zec at fer.hr>:

> Hi all,
>
> Although the ixgbe driver appears to have code for both 82598 and 82599 
> chipsets, the manual page stil lists only 82598 based cards as officially 
> supported.  Does anybody have first-hand experiences with 82599 based cards 
> and recent versions of the ixgbe driver (-CURRENT, 9.0, 8.3)?

We recently bought one:

ix0 at pci0:34:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
ix1 at pci0:34:0:1:        class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

It's currently used on 9.0 for benchmarking another box. Never had any
problems. Can someone say whether the X540 support in CURRENT is stable?

Regards, Julian