Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe)

[Jack Vogel]

The 82599 is and has been officially supported for some time, the manual
tends to lag, I will try and get it updated. In fact, given a choice I
would always
go with the 599. And yes, the X540 should be stable, its just not yet being
used as much yet.

Jack


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> wrote:

> 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
>
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