Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe)

[Sami Halabi]

Hi,
I KNOW you own the driver,i just mentioned that because its not listed on
intel's site,and that would be a base for decisions
when someone want to pick a card that works on fbsd:)
so its better get listed as well, no one is going to check *.c files.

Sami

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Funny, since I own the driver, one would think I'd know :)
>
> If you go look in the source directory for ixgbe you'll find a couple files
> in there: ixgbe_x540.[ch]. That should be a clue...
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>


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