someone just sent me some cash via paypal, so i just bought myself a cx4 cable. hopefully we'll see some packets moving on the tehuti network cards in the next week or so.
thanks guys, dlg On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:36:28AM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote: > hi, > > dlg and me started working on drivers for the Tehuti Networks tht(4) > and NetXen Inc. nx(4) 10Gb Ethernet devices. This is the second > generation of PCI Express-based 10Gb chipsets and they're starting to > become widely available. NetXen is beeing integrated in some Blade > solutions and Tehuti is about to release 10GbaseT (10Gb over CAT6+) > NICs in addition to the CX4 ones. > > More on this will follow... > > Here my question: While we have some cards now, we're looking for > donations of some more 10G accessories. > > Most important: > > - CX4 cables (802.3ak 10GbaseCX4, based on 4X Infiniband) 1+ meter > -> we're running the NICs back to back but we need more cables > (CX4 cables seem to be a bit expensive) > > Also interesting and superior grade (I'm dreaming...): > > - 10Gb Ethernet switches with Gigabit uplink port(s) (10GbaseCX4, 1000baseT) > > - sparc64 systems with PCI Express slots (like the v215, sparc64 is > the most important reference platform for driver development, we use > it to improve portability and also to find hidden bugs als present on > i386/amd64) > > - 10GbaseSR fibre cables > > Please also see http://www.openbsd.org/want.html for more requests for > donation. Developers need new hardware all the time, to work on > drivers for the hardware itself but also to have an environment to > work on other parts of the OpenBSD system (e.g. fast building machines > etc.). > > reyk
