From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 15:42:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5181065670 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 15:42:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32D78FC17 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 15:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds12 with SMTP id ds12so337632wgb.31 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 08:42:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=O3F47BTsWpX/bz1Lpwpsyj+Fn2f6b9VRmSGzCvI6xug=; b=pFJR+UHxXgBZwxw/lCVSxJ8RfP9aWXV7qHWsYhjKulT3u+dS3hhISSuA/T/BvpwN5d f0E2aKen9zX5BNSDODzWQdYrMI5jh3x4Vz96mQGgz29exRAOehTMcZ7wFq4D7PP7xQHt 3ctgLTA9gd3/htvh3jGlWdS0JWuCZETcEZnifSsR0LgdkU0UoMXHT2OndQ18az6TwtP1 5QtWyaBUaPm3X0ER1xV/GFudH2Ubz54G7S1FJlwjwqpjFsZqcAj5Y47auDQuSrnjfy6B R99ICofdAZd7ITf3Hk1pHFLOfalQhW6w65fBY73t6kyAssTCI2x9AfmNOxrXsh0mGAkq K7Sg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.137.22 with SMTP id x22mr2201550wei.69.1335886958902; Tue, 01 May 2012 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.7.103 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 08:42:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vckg84gk.fsf@alien8.de> References: <201204251241.04752.zec@fer.hr> <87vckg84gk.fsf@alien8.de> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 08:42:38 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jack Vogel To: Julian Stecklina Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 10 GbE cards (ixgbe) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 15:42:46 -0000 The 82599 is and has been officially supported for some time, the manual tends to lag, I will try and get it updated. In fact, given a choice I would always go with the 599. And yes, the X540 should be stable, its just not yet being used as much yet. Jack On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Julian Stecklina wrote: > Thus spake Marko Zec : > > > Hi all, > > > > Although the ixgbe driver appears to have code for both 82598 and 82599 > > chipsets, the manual page stil lists only 82598 based cards as officially > > supported. Does anybody have first-hand experiences with 82599 based > cards > > and recent versions of the ixgbe driver (-CURRENT, 9.0, 8.3)? > > We recently bought one: > > ix0@pci0:34:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > ix1@pci0:34:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0xa02c8086 chip=0x151c8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Intel Corporation' > device = '82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > It's currently used on 9.0 for benchmarking another box. Never had any > problems. Can someone say whether the X540 support in CURRENT is stable? > > Regards, Julian > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >