From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 17:03:26 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 F20171065707; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:03:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831298FC16; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1so176892vws.13 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:03:24 -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=spmK17GZC+lkMF6DKflPFdHTD3Vq39Vr6+eRHwCLOp8=; b=a40HyKsuTx1osKpA7YRgstzUKkvW0zeDX3dc2qYv7mjmGtYXkMcvGrlpK1LaPmzp8n mo849sVUDcyFABLNV1LIKo1HqjBHjNS90UJppdtuLHteGgaMPq9/gZmjm1QGM4lhV9eO XLbaen/KLbf1eB58UfKUGWCA7wbr12keBDKbQ= 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=wn1A93oK6YC2CM98kAiIupwHtP24MyKXN66Z2Bqk5btYUfizRlZFyOrtyh05tIgljk RRPiUX78BapedXuyLyiXk9FpgSrnJeuRnZxi1K01tuGZ+T1BUtfangcky2OS6dp/kan8 yhqPB5jGK0f3a0N5VWaOaoZA0bhXeOD2TYHwA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.19.100 with SMTP id z36mr473785qaa.84.1276189404356; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.238.199 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:03:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:03:24 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Alexander Sack Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Juli Mallett , 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: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:03:26 -0000 Well, em doesn't have a pluggable phy :) Hardware is different, that's why there's a different driver.... Jack On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Juli Mallett > wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 19:56, Alexander Sack wrote: > >> $ ifconfig ix1 > >> ix1: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 > > > > You need to bring the interface up in order for the SFP configuration to > occur. > > I am little bit confused: > > What's different with the ixgbe(4) than em(4)? i.e. My second em(4) > interface auto-negotiates properly on boot up, why shouldn't ixgbe > without having to do an additional ifconfig down/up cycle? > > (my ifconfig output above might be a little off since I was debugging > my SFP issues). > > -aps >