From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Fri Jul 24 07:05:06 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE279A7250 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71A4715A1; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:05:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-248-13.lns20.per4.internode.on.net [121.45.248.13]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t6O74pnO030316 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) & FreeBSD To: Hunter Satterwhite , FreeBSD Hackers References: Cc: ambrisko@freebsd.org From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <55B1E38E.4040001@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:04:46 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:05:07 -0000 On 7/23/15 8:19 AM, Hunter Satterwhite wrote: > Does anyone have experience or knowledge around FreeBSD enic/vnic driver > support for Cisco's Virtual Interface Card? We are moving to Cisco FlexPod > and this has been raised as a concern. I for one have not been successful > in finding any information around this and do not have the necessary > hardware to test FreeBSD on. unfortunately not a lot of people use the Cisco gear so it's possible that no-one does have this experience. Sounds like you are going to be the Guinea Pig! :-) IS this the "card" they have in their blade box that is for connecting all the servers in the one box to an internal switch? > > Cisco does not offer one and of course there are no plans on supporting > FreeBSD in this capacity, which came straight from one of their Data Center > specialist. > > My team and I are heavily invested in FreeBSD and would like continue using > it as our first choice of operating system. Any help our insight in to this > would be greatly appreciated. We appreciate the support. I can't go out and buy one however.. ;-) there is a CIsco division (IronPort) that does use FreeBSD.. maybe Doug (ambrisko@) (CC'd) can shake some info loose. last I saw they were using Dell gear though. Doug? > > Best,