Re: Intel 82599 with non-Intel SFP+'s?

2010-05-11 Thread Patrick Klos
Jack Vogel wrote: Intel can only support a finite set of hardware, it is NOT a matter of it being some "Intel" part, its a matter of some SFPs that are out there DO NOT WORK, so engineering here was able to delimit, validate, and thus certify a specific set of SFPs, the software check is there

Re: Intel 82599 with non-Intel SFP+'s?

2010-05-11 Thread Jack Vogel
Intel can only support a finite set of hardware, it is NOT a matter of it being some "Intel" part, its a matter of some SFPs that are out there DO NOT WORK, so engineering here was able to delimit, validate, and thus certify a specific set of SFPs, the software check is there to make sure that you

Intel 82599 with non-Intel SFP+'s?

2010-05-11 Thread Patrick Klos
Hello, I am building a packet capture box based on the Intel 82599 controller in a FreeBSD box. I purchased the Intel Ethernet X520 cards and Finisar SFP+'s, but apparently the 82599 does not support non-Intel SFP+'s? The code in the driver checks for the SFP vendor if a bit in the device c

Re: Intel 10Gb

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Murat Balaban [mu...@enderunix.org] wrote: > > Much of the FreeBSD networking stack has been made parallel in order to > cope with high packet rates at 10 Gig/sec operation. > > I've seen good numbers (near 10 Gig) in my tests involving TCP/UDP > send/receive. (latest Intel driver). > > As far

Re: Intel 10Gb

2010-05-11 Thread Barney Cordoba
--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Jack Vogel wrote: > From: Jack Vogel > Subject: Re: Intel 10Gb > To: "Barney Cordoba" > Cc: "Murat Balaban" , freebsd-...@freebsd.org, > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, "grarpamp" , "Vincent > Hoffman" > Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 1:12 PM > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:43