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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2012 11:06:21 -0700
From:      Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
Subject:   Re: Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe)
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Funny, since I own the driver, one would think I'd know :)

If you go look in the source directory for ixgbe you'll find a couple files
in there: ixgbe_x540.[ch]. That should be a clue...

Jack


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> wrote:

> x540has no fbsd driver
>
> Sami
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
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>
>
> --
> Sami Halabi
> Information Systems Engineer
> NMS Projects Expert
>
>



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