Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 08:42:38 -0700 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe) Message-ID: <CAFOYbc=srg0GiMv=Gf79b9BbxHawEZpFrG=pXb5s2BUZqwCVTQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87vckg84gk.fsf@alien8.de> References: <201204251241.04752.zec@fer.hr> <87vckg84gk.fsf@alien8.de>
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The 82599 is and has been officially supported for some time, the manual tends to lag, I will try and get it updated. In fact, given a choice I would always go with the 599. And yes, the X540 should be stable, its just not yet being used as much yet. Jack On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de> wrote: > Thus spake Marko Zec <zec@fer.hr>: > > > Hi all, > > > > Although the ixgbe driver appears to have code for both 82598 and 82599 > > chipsets, the manual page stil lists only 82598 based cards as officially > > supported. Does anybody have first-hand experiences with 82599 based > cards > > and recent versions of the ixgbe driver (-CURRENT, 9.0, 8.3)? > > We recently bought one: > > ix0@pci0:34:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > ix1@pci0:34:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > It's currently used on 9.0 for benchmarking another box. Never had any > problems. Can someone say whether the X540 support in CURRENT is stable? > > Regards, Julian > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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