Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe)

[Sami Halabi]

x540has no fbsd driver

Sami

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Sami Halabi
Information Systems Engineer
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