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From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>=20
> > I finally got a 10G card that is recognized by FreeBSD (9.1-stable):
> > ...
> > ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.4.8>=
 port
> > 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xd9e80000-0xd9efffff,0xd9ff8000-0xd9ffbfff irq 40 =
at d=3Device
> > 0.0 on pci4
> > ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
> > ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default instead=21
>
> From reading sys/dev/ixgbe/README:
>=20
> echo =22kern.ipc.nmbclusters=3D262144=22 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> echo =22kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=3D262144=22 >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> reboot
> --
> Devin
>

Hi Devin,
keep forgetting, 'may the source be with you' :-)

but this only works if the driver is loaded after
the sysctl is executed=21
it's better to put it in /boot/loader.conf

thanks,
	danny