Best 10Gbit/s card for FB 9.2

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 6 October 2013 10:47, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to known what is the best 10 Gbits/s copper ethernet card for
> FreeBSD 9.2 on Dell hardware :
>
> I got on the Dell's website
>
>
>
>     Broadcom 57800 2x10Gb BT + 2x1Gb BT Network Daughter Card
>
>     Broadcom 57810 DP 10Gb BT Converged Network Adapter
>
>     Intel Ethernet X540 10Gb BT DP + i350 1Gb BT DP Network Daughter Card
>
>     Intel Ethernet X540 DP 10GBASE-T Server Adapter, Low Profile
>

It looks like (from grepping around) that the BCE578xx are only
supported on FreeBSD 10 (bxe(4)).  The Intel adapter looks to be
supported on 9.2 as ixgbe(4) which is in the GENERIC kernel & so
should (cross fingers) work "out of the box".

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