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Subject: Re: SolarFlare 10GB card
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On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>=20
>> We've a brand spanking new SolarFlare 10GB nic for use with our beast =
of a server.
>>=20
>> However the vendor support page says the driver is in beta.
>=20
> If you look in the download[1], you'll see that the driver is named =
sfxge. It
> was released in November 2011. This driver is already present in =
FreeBSD 9.1,
> look at the source in /usr/src/sys/dev/sfxge.
> So it seems like it is as much out of beta as any other driver. :-)

Well, how would I compile it?:)

I can the dir in my 9.2RC1 install.

- aurf=