On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:17:33PM -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | Hi All, > | > | I'm looking for a new 1Gb or 10Gb PCI-E adaptor with fibre > | connections. Can anyone make some recommendations on a good performing > | adapter under OpenBSD. I see there has been a lot of work going on > | with the Intel ix(4) based adapters would these be the recommended > | cards to use in the 10Gb department? If so what have the developers > | been using to test/develop this driver with? > > Anyone have any comments/problems with the following cards? > > The following cards look to be well supported. I'm specifically talking > about the Intel Gigabit EF Dual port SX adaptor based on the Intel 82576 > Gigabit Ethernet Controller. This card supports full hardware virtualization > which the others don't, so I'd likely go with it even though OpenBSD doesn't > do H/W virtualization. > > http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/Gb-EF-Dual-Port/Gb-EF-Dual-Port-overview.htm > > For 10GbE the following adaptor looks to be quite good and supported using > the Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller > > http://www.intel.com/Products/Server/Adapters/X520/ethernet-X520-overview.htm >
Both should work. As you said you can not use the additional features of the 82576 card. As far as I know the SX version should just work but no developer has such a card IIRC. The SFP+ ix(4) work without any issue, never tried the ones with onboard optics. -- :wq Claudio
