On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM R Tyler Croy <[email protected]> wrote: > > (replies inline) > > > On Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 at 6:24 PM, Karl Denninger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > What physical hardware is on that driver? > > > > > I have a box here with two ix interfaces in it that is my edge router and > > beat the SNOT out of it without problems. This is what the boot messages > > are for them in my machine here: > > > These are both identical 10GigE NICs, from dmesg > > ix0: <Intel(R) X540-AT2> mem 0xe0400000-0xe05fffff,0xe0600000-0xe0603fff irq > 18 at device 0.0 on pci1 > ix0: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors > ix0: Using 2 RX queues 2 TX queues > ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 3 vectors > ix0: allocated for 2 queues > ix0: allocated for 2 rx queues > ix0: Ethernet address: a0:36:9f:38:44:a8 > ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8 > ix0: fw 4.2.0 nvm 4.03.0 eTrack 0x8000037c > ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/2048, RX 2/2048
ix is generally regarded as stable as others have stated. It would be helpful to see 'sysctl dev.ix' after a stall, and maybe a clean one prior to it. On X540 I'd pay some attention to thermals, the PHY generates a real amount of heat. > > System: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p4 > > When I was chasing that arpresolve warning I saw in the console, I did see > some discussion like this > (https://be-virtual.net/pfsense-arpresolve-cant-allocate-llinfo-for-x-x-x-x-on-emx/) > about funky routers on the other end of the link causing trouble. Since this > is a newer fiber rollout from my local ISP (Sonic) I wouldn't be surprised if > there was something funky happening there. Since the LAN-side routing goes > haywire, I'm thinking that's a red herring. > > > > Cheers >
