Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:56:57 -0700 From: Lee Brown <leeb@ratnaling.org> To: Eric Joyner <ricera10@gmail.com> Cc: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>, "Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Will this card (probably) work? Message-ID: <CAFPNf5-Rk%2BXOwLOtDudVR9FNE-72_8zhnXcRGSrEzZrX1KSSMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bb0zg8BSmSjohWNpR4oGaY5MOUsE0EaEzeCZp0FkbpuGmFg4w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFPNf58ubVVM3hVUY_9KTdKJG3QLx=%2BSx3T31GYCc7-_5UWh6w@mail.gmail.com> <53c8aa26-6bd5-22ed-8987-f901451e4dfd@freebsd.org> <CAFPNf5_LzzRTdYZnx2Ba00%2BmQ_c9oBS2x8FaqyafF01tGCEf=w@mail.gmail.com> <a6f950c8-2a70-55a0-b1e6-df307e75ed11@freebsd.org> <CAFOYbckDCfvutCkhsn_HbJLxH%2BJ0PXs5_-Fd7QozMcxccJXa8g@mail.gmail.com> <2A35EA60C3C77D438915767F458D656883946510@ORSMSX111.amr.corp.intel.com> <CAOjFWZ707Wqb8v54rupd9YeUfVxhOVAvWmWamuc4h4zATo1WEQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2Bb0zg8BSmSjohWNpR4oGaY5MOUsE0EaEzeCZp0FkbpuGmFg4w@mail.gmail.com>
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I agree, but unfortunately nothing Intel offers came remotely close. They have only 1 card that does singlemode, which is a single port to boot and I can't stick 4 of those in my server. My choice was merely the only thing I could find :( I think I'm going to be better off getting some managed media converters and a normal copper gigabit card that is well known and supported. Singlemode cards are hard to find at best and this router will get heavy use I expect. Still waiting for PCI vendor information. Thanks -- lee On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Eric Joyner <ricera10@gmail.com> wrote: > Other OEMs can make their own designs that use Intel chips -- e.g. Silico= m > makes a 6-port full height SFP card that combines a 4-port I350AM4 with a > 2-port I350 AM2. > > It's just that the further away you get from an Intel design, the less > support we'll be able to give you if something goes wrong. And buying a > card on ebay, and made by a relatively unknown OEM (to me at least) doesn= 't > help. > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:20 AM Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Pieper, Jeffrey E < >> jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com> wrote: >> >> > What else would it show up as :) ? >> > >> > As long as the controller isn't counterfeit...which I would be wary of= . >> > I've never seen a low profile i350-F4, mainly due to overheating. You >> can >> > tell if you can see the components, but in this case the entire card i= s >> > covered by the heatsink. >> > >> >> =E2=80=8BThis page, straight from Intel, says the F4 variant only comes = in a >> full-height format: >> =E2=80=8B >> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ethernet-products/ >> gigabit-server-adapters/ethernet-server-adapter-i350.html >> >> All the other variants (T2, T4, F2) come in low-profile formats. >> >> >> -- >> Freddie Cash >> fjwcash@gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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