Best 10Gbit/s card for FB 9.2

Albert Shih Albert.Shih at obspm.fr
Mon Oct 7 08:06:39 UTC 2013


 Le 06/10/2013 à 18:24:27-0400, illoai at gmail.com a écrit
> 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".

Lots of thanks.

When I got my server I send here the result to confirm (or not) the
support. 

Regards.

JAS
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