From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 20 21:32:21 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C7FF4C459 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-186.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.186]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dweimer.net", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8FB869240 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from www.dweimer.net (pfSense.dweimer.local [10.9.5.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w2KLCiBJ085710 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:12:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=dweimer.net; s=2017.01.31; t=1521580365; bh=BF+SEfFUeI4SdMwrpWWZ4eQ1yfg6sIrCPAnkhskZI/o=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Reply-To; b=IecnvYIRhwhqu+0n2MQXV/iS7jMnnLI2IXMPvFsAM833AJn307mwm4GHMzrDp1u/f OXdFdfESMrzl30+I2oUT7ZHOFppqo9PfmNYHghCdAn9qRb3DemrczkICu5m+BGC0u8 2PL0cUby6p6aPN88FjmrpGJgprrg/0Sq89ml8PzPScLXcX9x2dfc5ivpjBdHc9BbK0 UQcacQCRWCNbNYXKkZdjMcUO/Fd1UTW7CrQA13YVezYkrGNynKC9H/8tox57rYhAgB 6mMKL14eGqtf/vLiKhmPcqV6syDSAGRAaAxVDP4AA2eeknLTjY2Btfr+8BL18NNvdS 8pBe2N3/FCcqQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:12:39 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Intel 82598EB twinax cables Organization: dweimer.net Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Message-ID: <94c134bad1f05c434605862842937b17@dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:32:21 -0000 I am trying to utilize an old Dell R710 server that used to be in our ESX cluster. To replace an even older FreeBSD server I have been running. Because it's pretty stupid to throw massively better system in the recycle pile while keeping the slower system online. The problem I have is that the new server has 10G Ethernet adapters connected with Cisco Twinax Cables. Adapters are Intel 8259EB 10Gigabit AF Dual Port Adapters We have Cisco Twinax Cables connecting them to an Avaya VSP 7000 series switch However I have been unable to get the interfaces to show any status other than no carrier. I have tried everything including building a custom kernel without the if_ix device and compiling the latest version from Intel and installing that. I have done an up command on the interfaces, tried setting an IP, but nothing changes the status. Am I missing something or is the FreeBSD Driver just not compatible with these Twinax Cables? The cards of course were used with these cables on VMWare? Here is the output from some commands below, there maybe some errors I can't copy and past from the remote kvm console, so I had to type this from reading the screen. this is just the first of the 4 interfaces. dmesg: ix0: Port 0xccc0-0ccdf mem 0xdeb40000-0xdeb5ffff,0xdeb80000-0xdebbffff,0xdeb38000-0xdeb3fff irq 47 at device 0.0 on pci11 ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors ix0: Ethernet address: 00:00:c9:85:33:22 ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 2.5GT/s Width x8 pciconf -lv: ix0@pci0:11:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe41010df chip=0x10c68086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82598EV 10-Gigabit AF Dual Port Network Connection' class = 'network' subclass = 'ethernet' ifconfig -v ix0 ix0: flags=8843 METRIC 0 MTU 9000 options=e407bb ether 00:00:c9:85:33:22 hwaddr 00:00:c9:85:33:22 nd6 options=29 media: Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/