From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 07:26:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB58106564A; Wed, 19 May 2010 07:26:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6808FC20; Wed, 19 May 2010 07:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so328545wwb.13 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 00:26:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=4RzF3P0N1c0rLDynbKxd3ccNcmUKUXo2sinwngdOL00=; b=oj2B/Q9WZ7IjvIrHf3WR2oGkQCptW9p1/coGkroh94Rm6IdHpz3k1Slo3TufNH0MSA Zwj6oY2hO8D1GvUkCny2W+3dOrg1ODalxMcNmM0kg46TMFDO7w1kZMB51xmvn0xGLDX/ qVOZzrNniYxw3Wjf76+ngoSdY1Gs1DuL0hLcQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kY+vQMcbxKLONscT+dDIufqmNKFTIkTSyrsxlOpfB0NwfnwusGfREXC+xgxMcaVZPQ BRj3OU2OtXKMIkdq7c4Z+a4FeP4DK7iGeUukPKD99GoKL4yUW4sYB5Ep2ttTaI3jE/mp dL5D8JHVNeWjVJtRIHbMqm1o+fvFgxKm+6brU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.128.81 with SMTP id j17mr7452709wbs.149.1274253991595; Wed, 19 May 2010 00:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.29.129 with HTTP; Wed, 19 May 2010 00:26:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 00:26:31 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Juli Mallett Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-rate transceivers with ixgbe? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:26:33 -0000 Hmmm, this is odd, I'm sure that was tested by my validation engineer. Tell me what the hardware looks like, ie what the 1G link partner is and I'll have him check into it... it SHOULD work. You could just ask me you know :) Jack On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Juli Mallett wrote: > Hey all, > > Has anyone out there been able to get link using a dual-rate > transceiver at 1gig with the ixgbe driver in FreeBSD? I have an SFP+ > NIC and an Intel-branded dual-rate transceiver but it will only get > link at 10gig. > > I used the latest driver from FreeBSD trunk backported (which IIRC > didn't take any significant changes; jfv@ does a good job of keeping > the drivers working across branches) to 7.x for my testing. A > similarly-versioned Linux driver (with only trivial and mostly > cosmetic differences in the hardware code outside of the main driver) > worked at 1gig just fine. All testing was done with switches rather > than host-to-host connections. > > It seems like someone else must have tried this and it seems like > there must just be some trivial difference in card initialization > between FreeBSD and Linux, so I thought I'd ask publicly to see if > anyone had patches. I instrumented the code extensively but so far > have come up empty-handed. > > Thanks, > Juli. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >