On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:07:10PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:Does anyone have recommendations on 10 GbE network interfaces that are well supported by NetBSD drivers? I am aware that there are drivers for the Chelsio N320E card, but as far as I can tell there is no documentation, which makes me nervous. Would the Intel 82597EX 10 Gigabit Ethernet (dge(4)) be a better choice?Where will you get a dge card these days? Try something that uses the ixgbe driver.
Wow, where did you get a 82597 controller? That's PCI-X and pretty darn old. I think it does ~600Mpps if you're lucky (or was it 300?) because of PCI-X bus limitations. A newer 10G controller is the 82599, which is still a couple of years old so the problems should be fairly well known (x520 adapters). Docs for the 82599 are on http://www.intel.com/go/ethernet and, btw, that's my day job. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd%twofifty.com@localhost BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte