ix? / Intel(R) PRO/10GbE

[Teske, Devin]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Daniel Braniss 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!
> 

>From reading sys/dev/ixgbe/README:

echo "kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
echo "kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=262144" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
reboot
-- 
Devin

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