Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:09:38 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Subject: Re: Any recommendations for a 10G NIC from Broadcom Message-ID: <201201040809.38706.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4F041C54.4010904@my.gd> References: <CALCNsJTBLq3OQcftWXb2JUi1iYdv0NOQU2KejmJPs-J5xHHLLA@mail.gmail.com> <4F041C54.4010904@my.gd>
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On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:31:00 am Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 1/4/12 6:10 AM, Vijay Singh wrote: > > Hi. I would like to try out a 10G NIC from Broadcom. The BCM5716 seems > > promising. I am looking for features such as multi-queue, MSI-X, TSO > > etc. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > Now, I'm going to offer you an indirect response. > > Jack Vogel, who works at Intel, writes and maintains the code for most > (all?) the Intel NICs on FreeBSD. > > If I had to make a choice between Broadcom and Intel, I'd go with Intel > for this very reason. OTOH, Broadcom also has a commiter on staff who helps to maintain FreeBSD drivers (David Christensen - davidch@). There is a bxe(4) driver in 9.0 and later (albeit missing a manpage) which supports some Broadcom 10G NICs: BCM57710, BCM57711, and BCM57711E. -- John Baldwin
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