From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 18:34:21 2008 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 326A51065674 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:34:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF18E8FC08 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 18:34:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1784077fgb.35 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:34:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=X3K6DJ2K+cyw5LZtEuHe8zsXkD8HzfYu1+kfD92WWPA=; b=po2OM+ITgfJCF238XShxdgBKx5I8uBOhpmi7dIx0tvDrOunu2KmdYGP9AvLoZ9FGw3 Wlx/f+j/PsgatiYVA5EypWVbjkggWPrQ+c22zC8V+dm/e9KVeX58OgOJgKEv23CUlDfx N8vuEKU9sc99CyY32sWetswokFAVUvSNsLD6w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=Sw/Q5sB0L2b3z6YhxDXTgObgffAjF9Nzp61HPGA6v4Wb011opO027BNd8DLiyjMpyT RrrkOAxPJ6vgWdHcZ6QiNq8CrvYEfzMRcgH8i6mqr2sJdCU+i4wQKCD/LI0QkrpigYX7 XqyS8iaF1r/rOYwMVNRuNOWRMeBg6kISDqt/g= Received: by 10.181.137.17 with SMTP id p17mr3922519bkn.40.1225650858138; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:34:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.208.16 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:34:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0811021034x45b86de1q43ef867333dfbd20@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 10:34:18 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Brian McGinty" In-Reply-To: <601bffc40811011746x5c684e3fs89e3019688a333ab@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <499a3e640810282326p99e0d1eud93c7ecd310c8145@mail.gmail.com> <601bffc40811011746x5c684e3fs89e3019688a333ab@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Mihail Balikov Subject: Re: ixgbe vs mxge 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: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:34:21 -0000 You know I generally try to maintain courtesy and civility in my dealings with the community but this really ticks me off. I have stayed out of this thread because I figured it was only fair that those with obvious bias should do so. Hopelessly neglected and broken?? ...the driver is maintained by me, and I am in the same organization as the developers of the Linux driver. If anyone has real questions about my driver and our hardware you may contact me. Jack Vogel Sr. Network Engineer Intel Lan Access Division On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Brian McGinty wrote: > I don't know nothing about mxge so I can't comment, but I know that > FreeBSD ixgbe driver is not even close to that of the Linux version. I > switched to Linux just for ixgbe as our network was being standardized > on 10G, and I think that's the best bet. The Linux version of the > driver is actively worked on and I got a lot of help and bug fixes > from the maintainers of the driver, whereas the FreeBSD driver is > hopelessly neglected and broken. > > Brian > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mihail Balikov > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to setup 10gbit bridge on FreeBSD7 , but I'm little bit > > confused which vendor to choose for the NICs. > > Can you send me some feed back? > > > > regards, > > Mihail Balikov > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >