From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 15:40:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 860242FC for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x231.google.com (mail-pa0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 585E82B0E for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id hz1so5534478pad.8 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:40:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :message-id:references:to; bh=9Nukrpu2si5+uVjM9GobmU/rRrYAtKY7LCI2C8K9c5g=; b=bZgLASMeaF0bval9i3Zkt2qBEkYdTta9pkAkTaAW7NwRvhSyPy9ESUD7LXejbdCZdO FGAabhRcxPDhkIz1QCSHQID8EVwolQXEBEn99EU02QMoiuq+GuTfXtkZqQ5n1T1opav3 9/1mvHoftE4CCXTThd7RGv+Oz3ZYAk2JRU1F2rSwHMBKlCUkg6OEji/NxKq8BLVrnRX4 kAPKNjDDueR9Zrt080ks75zTn6y9FqooLUxdJLQx3YggqEwC63yiXwSFtr5P8ZoKpmc7 wGmwVevPgA5fbxdToAhSBR9Bkd9uDM90+F5fLJa0kYRTk+LDMVH0xr1ISESGkwieKIDk Jjtg== X-Received: by 10.70.101.201 with SMTP id fi9mr6462422pdb.125.1407426017875; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.76] (75-63-29-182.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. [75.63.29.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kt2sm200672pbc.83.2014.08.07.08.40.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: 10Gbit NIC From: aurfalien In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 08:40:14 -0700 Message-Id: <351C2D21-C16B-4DCF-A296-3C2ADE36E3CB@gmail.com> References: To: Daniel Feenberg X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: Daniel Corbe , questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:40:18 -0000 Solarflare here. Works great. - aurf "Janitorial Services" On Aug 6, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Daniel Corbe wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> Anyone have good experience with 10Gbit in FreeBSD? Have you been = able >> to forward at line rate? What cards give the best performance? >>=20 >> -Daniel >=20 > With 10GBE compatibility has not reached the point where one can worry = about performance. >=20 > We have used HP NC522SFP+ and NC523SFP+ NICs with good result for = 10GBE over DAC. They work with any DAC cable. We found that we could = transfer files over NFS at line rate (but those are large packets). We = don't know if it could pass small packets at line rate. >=20 > We have used Chelsio N310 for DAC, but PXE booting would not work with = non-Chelsio cables, and Chelsio cables are not always available, even = from Chelsio. Also, NFS seemed to hang from time to time (in Linux). >=20 > We did not ever use our Brocade DAC card, we were unable to find a DAC = cable that was accepted by the NIC at PXE boot time. >=20 > We have used Intel X540-T1 with good result for twisted pair. With = twisted pair the cable is completely standard. Cat 6A and 7 have both = worked for us. PXE booting worked. >=20 > We have never used FO. These experiences are mostly with Linux, but = the HP and Chelsio cards have been used with FreeBSD for several years. >=20 > In the future I expect to purchase only the Intel X540 cards. >=20 > Daniel Feenberg >=20 >=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"