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Subject: Re: using ConnectX card as Ethernet (mlxen)
From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Monday, September 24, 2012 12:37:30 pm John Nielsen wrote:
>> I have a machine running "FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r240887" amd64 with =
two=20
> ConnectX (InfiniBand) cards. Relevant bits of dmesg and pciconf -lv =
below. The=20
> cards are connected directly to a 10GB Ethernet switch so I need to =
run them=20
> in "eth" mode rather than "ib". Unfortunately they come up in "ib" =
mode and I=20
> don't know how to change it.
>>=20
>> The same hardware works fine under CentOS 6.3, though I need to =
manually set=20
> the cards to 'eth' there as well (which I do using a =
'connectx_port_config=20
> script from Mellanox that twiddles the mlx4_port1 entries under /sys =
(sysfs).=20
> Under FreeBSD I see these sysctls but I can't set them to 'eth' either =
via=20
> /boot/loader.conf or by sysctl after boot, with or without mlxen =
and/or mlx4ib=20
> loaded:
>> sys.device.mlx4_core0.mlx4_port1: ib
>> sys.device.mlx4_core1.mlx4_port1: ib
>=20
> So this was just fixed (finally) in HEAD in r253048.  You can how use =
the
> sysctls to change this.

I saw the commit. Thanks! I'll give it a try at some point (whenever my =
schedule and hardware availability align).

JN