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Subject: Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE 10GE ix driver panics when setting mtu > 1500
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:19:09 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:

> I noticed this system has the adapter in a Gen1 PCI slot (2.5 Gb/s), you
> will get double in
> Gen 2, that may be why you only see 6.

According to the specs it is a gen2 slot. As far as we understand,
the NIC is an old generation that is clocking at 2.5. Anyway, it's
x8 slot, so even at 2.5 its should go up to 16 Gbit/s.

	rvdp