From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jan 22 18:46:42 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBAA4FB5D0 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:46:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from healer@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.1.202]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp2", Issuer "smtp2" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DMpBn4bM6z3nNP for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from healer@rpi.edu) Received: from mail-auth4.server.rpi.edu (mail-auth4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.1.234]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-8+deb9u1) with ESMTPS id 10MIkV4o006797 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:46:31 -0500 Received: from mail-auth4.server.rpi.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail-auth4.server.rpi.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB94580A6 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:46:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (cpe-74-70-97-85.nycap.res.rr.com [74.70.97.85]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: healer) by mail-auth4.server.rpi.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BC9258056 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:46:31 -0500 (EST) To: freebSD-questions@freebsd.org From: Robert Healey Subject: 100G NIC questions Message-ID: <5f016000-06e6-a918-9435-37f1988fbbff@rpi.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:46:30 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: outgoing, @@RPTN) X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 10.10] X-CanIt-Incident-Id: 0d4jSKvTX X-CanIt-Geo: ip=74.70.97.85; country=US; region=New York; city=Troy; latitude=42.7841; longitude=-73.6756; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.7841,-73.6756&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.1.202 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DMpBn4bM6z3nNP X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=rpi.edu; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of healer@rpi.edu designates 128.113.1.202 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=healer@rpi.edu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.80 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[128.113.1.202:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:128.113.1.200/29]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[128.113.1.202:from:127.0.2.255]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[rpi.edu,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:91, ipnet:128.113.0.0/16, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebSD-questions]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[74.70.97.85:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:46:42 -0000 I'm in the process of building a new file server for work, and part of the spec is 100G connectivity.  A preference is for me to use a Mellanox/NVIDIA NIC since the switch and the 2 clients both have Mellanox/NVIDIA hardware.  How well does the Mellanox gear work, or should be looking at an alternate OEM such as Intel?  Or is 100G too exotic for FreeBSD? -- Bob Healey '05 Senior Systems Administrator Office of Research and Scientific Computation Research Center healer@rpi.edu (518) 276-6022