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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:10:04 -0500
From:      Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
To:        "andre@freebsd.org" <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Looking for bge(4) , bce(4) and igb(4) cards
Message-ID:  <2068A84F-0B1F-43B3-AAE8-5A8442C0B327@longcount.org>
In-Reply-To: <50A372EC.5080002@freebsd.org>
References:  <50A372EC.5080002@freebsd.org>

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Andre
  I'll try to do it today or next monday when I get back from vacation . The=
y are all hp branded nic's . I ordered them with in the last few years to us=
e in place of bce nic's on the main boards of hp servers .=20

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On Nov 14, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello
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> I currently working on a number of drivers for popular network
> cards and extend them with automatic hybrid interrupt/polling
> ithread processing with life-lock prevention (so that the driver
> can't consume all CPU when under heavy load or attack).
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> To properly test this I need the proper hardware as PCIe network
> cards:
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> bge(4) Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x
> bce(4) Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5706/5708/5709/5716)
> igb(4) Intel PRO/1000 i82575, i82576, i82580, i210, i350
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> If you have one of these and can spare it I'd be very glad if
> you could send it to me.  I'm located in Switzerland/Europe.
> I can reply to you privately to give you my shipping address.
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>=20
> Of course if you have any other PCIe Gigabit Ethernet cards
> with a driver in FreeBSD I'm interested in receiving one as
> well.  Of particular interest are:
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> em(4)  Intel i82571 to i82573
> lem(4) Intel i82540 to i82546
> age(4) Atheros L1 GigE
> ???    anything else 1GigE with PCIe
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>=20
> The same goes for 10 Gigabit Ethernet but the setup is a bit
> more involved and I haven't done that yet, but will do soon
> (the issue being expensive SPF+ optics):
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> bxe(4)   Broadcom BCM5771x 10GigE
> cxbge(4) Chelsio T4 10GigE
> ixgbe(4) Intel i82598 and i82599 10GigE
> mxge(4)  Myricom Myri10G
> qlxgb(4) QLogic 3200 and 8200 10GigE
> sfxge(4) Solarflare
>=20
> Many thanks for your support!
>=20
> --=20
> Andre
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