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Subject: Re: Calling nxge(4) users
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> The nxge(4) driver for the Neterion Xframe-I and Xframe-II 10GbE
> adapters has obvious bugs (by inspection) and it doesn't appear the
> company exists any more.  We'd like to see if there are any significant
> users of this device and plan to remove it from FreeBSD-12 if not.
> 
> -- Brooks

Neterion has been acquired by exar. 
	https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1173009

They have the datasheet for the Xframe-I here:
	https://www.exar.com/ds/xframedatasheet.pdf

The cards appear to be readily avaliable on ebay.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org