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Subject: Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?
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Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented, and worked, but it
has not had a lot of use I suspect, and it has been in a limited number
of setups. I know nothing about this Amazon provided hosting, is it
linux/kvm or xen?

I can see if we can get something set up and check it here.

Jack




On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> On 12/04/13 10:21, Jack Vogel wrote:
> > Yes, the ixv code was specifically written to work in a guest with
> SRIOV, however
> > our internal testing did not use DHCP, what if you assign it an address,
> will it
> > work then?
>
> Hard-coding an IP address doesn't work either.  Or rather, I can assign it
> an
> address, but it continues to not pass packets.
>
> Are there any diagnostic tunables/sysctls I should try turning on?  Since
> this
> is in EC2 I'm unfortunately limited to "printf-style" debugging.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>