ix? / Intel(R) PRO/10GbE

[Luigi Rizzo]

ixgbe is the _driver name_, ix is the _interface name_ you
see in ifconfig. The latter is usually shorter.

Also there are overlaps, e.g. the lem, em and igb drivers
all map to "em" as interface name.

cheers
luigi


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:

> I finally got a 10G card that is recognized by FreeBSD (9.1-stable):
> ...
> ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.4.8> port
> 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xd9e80000-0xd9efffff,0xd9ff8000-0xd9ffbfff irq 40 at
> device
> 0.0 on pci4
> ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
> ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default instead!
> ix0: Ethernet address: 90:e2:ba:29:c0:54
> ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0Gb/s Width x8
> ...
> but it apperas as ix0/ix1, manuals only mention ixgb/e,
> and ifconfig:
>
> ix0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
> options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCS
> UM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
>         ether 90:e2:ba:29:c0:54
>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
> ix1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
> options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCS
> UM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
>         ether 90:e2:ba:29:c0:55
>         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
>
> and pciconf:
> ix0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x7a118086 chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
> Secondly how is this fixable:
>         RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default instead!
>
> thanks,
>         danny
>
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