Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:58:11 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: hausen@punkt.de, petefrench@ingresso.co.uk, rmacklem@uoguelph.ca Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance Message-ID: <E1diful-0002B0-Rj@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <YTXPR01MB0189C3A063E5C39B9B186EFDDD800@YTXPR01MB0189.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Maybe the folk that made hardware suggestions can post which net > interface(s) they are using and whether they are seeing driver issues? The HP boxes have Broadcom ethernet controllers driven with the 'bge' driver, and thatw orks fine. I stick to Intel or Broadcom controllers for gigabit ether where I have a choice. The only 10 gig cards we have are some 2nd hand Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards because they are dirt cheap on eBay. They work fine in FreeBSD using the mlxen driver (add MK_OFED=yes to tour /etc/src.conf) but we have had a lot of problems getting them to talk to anthing other than other identical cards - a set of Qlogic (I think) HP cards would work very occasionally, but most of the time would not find a carrier. We are using twinax copper SFF+ for the 10 gig, maybe I would have got better luck with optical, but it wasnt importnat enough to do any serious testing on. -pete.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E1diful-0002B0-Rj>