Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-05 Thread Jack Vogel
On 6/5/07, Alan Amesbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kip Macy wrote: >> Sounds like the Intel hardware is the way to go, then. Performance is > > I'm not sure how you extrapolate that from the conversation to this > point. The ix cards are not currently available so nothing is yet > known about

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-05 Thread Alan Amesbury
Kip Macy wrote: Sounds like the Intel hardware is the way to go, then. Performance is I'm not sure how you extrapolate that from the conversation to this point. The ix cards are not currently available so nothing is yet known about how they perform under FreeBSD and they may well come at a p

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-04 Thread Kip Macy
On 6/4/07, Alan Amesbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On June 1, 2007, Kip Macy wrote: > I'm talking about what is in the tree in the moment. I'll have to > withhold judgement on ix until we can actually use it. With luck he'll > have time to adapt it to FreeBSD. There are a number of other 10GigE

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Amesbury
On June 1, 2007, Kip Macy wrote: I'm talking about what is in the tree in the moment. I'll have to withhold judgement on ix until we can actually use it. With luck he'll have time to adapt it to FreeBSD. There are a number of other 10GigE drivers cards that are "supported" by FreeBSD, but they t

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-03 Thread Kip Macy
BTW, we're anything but a large company, and I'm really shocked that we've dropped email from you once, let alone twice. We deal with lots of (satisfied) small customers. If you could privately bounce a copy of the most recent mail you sent (including all the headers you have), I'll try to track

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kip Macy writes: > to purchase a pair of cards (I never got a response back). When I was > at an extremely large NAS vendor that we all know they had a tendency > to drop the ball on smaller customers and I've seen that in many other > large companies - this was never intended as an anti-Myric

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-03 Thread Kip Macy
On 6/3/07, Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kip Macy writes: > Myricom nominally sells their cards directly, but they've dropped both > a support request and a PO request from me, so I don't think its > worthwhile contacting them directly unless you're a large customer. I'm really

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kip Macy writes: > On 6/1/07, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wasn't Jack Vogel (Intel?) only talking the other day about > > committing a new 10Gb Intel driver. > > > > The "New driver coming soon" thread on current / net. > > I'm talking about what is in the tree in the mo

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kip Macy writes: > Myricom nominally sells their cards directly, but they've dropped both > a support request and a PO request from me, so I don't think its > worthwhile contacting them directly unless you're a large customer. I'm really sorry your initial help ticket was never received by us

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-01 Thread Kip Macy
On 6/1/07, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wasn't Jack Vogel (Intel?) only talking the other day about committing a new 10Gb Intel driver. The "New driver coming soon" thread on current / net. I'm talking about what is in the tree in the moment. I'll have to withhold judgement on ix

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-01 Thread Steven Hartland
Wasn't Jack Vogel (Intel?) only talking the other day about committing a new 10Gb Intel driver. The "New driver coming soon" thread on current / net. Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or e

Re: Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-01 Thread Kip Macy
My understanding is that ixgb in CVS is quite far behind the vendor driver. Unfortunately, for high performance 10GigE on FreeBSD the only options worth looking at the moment are cxgb (Chelsio T3) and mxge (Myricom). Chelsio is selling eval kits right now: http://www.chelsio.com/evalkits.php Myr

Intel PRO/10GbE CX4? General 10Gb tips?

2007-06-01 Thread Alan Amesbury
ixgb(4) on 6.2-RELEASE-p5 says that the driver supports adapters based on the 82597EX controller. The 10GbE CX4 uses the same chip, but isn't in the list of explicitly listed hardware in the manpage. A quick peek at the driver in the source tree shows that it does some hardware-specific check