Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:09:36PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to get some clarification on what would work and not for the 10Gb Intel network cards? I compare the man page, both man(4) ixgb and man(4) ix as well as the hardware section and looked at the data

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:28 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:09:36PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to get some clarification on what would work and not for the 10Gb Intel network cards? I compare the man page, both man(4) ixgb and man(4) ix as well as the

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi Jonathan, The intel product documents are confused about which chips they use. The clearest split is something along the lines of: 7 82599EB -- PCI Express* (PCIe*) 2.0, dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller 7 82599ES -- Serial 10 GbE backplane interface for blade

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:16 PM, FRLinux wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: On this one, I will make a leap of fate here. I suppose you are right. Would be nice to know for sure anyway. The only way to know if for me to gt one I guess and test it for real. leap

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: There are mentions of 82598 10GbaseT working, I don't see why 82599 10GbaseT wouldn't work off hand. That could well be, but I learn many years ago to do my homework first on hardware support with OpenBSD and even if that may

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread FRLinux
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: On this one, I will make a leap of fate here. I suppose you are right. Would be nice to know for sure anyway. The only way to know if for me to gt one I guess and test it for real. leap of faith you mean? :D Steph

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:51 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: There are mentions of 82598 10GbaseT working, I don't see why 82599 10GbaseT wouldn't work off hand. That could well be, but I learn many years ago to do my homework first on hardware

Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Would it be possible to get some clarification on what would work and not for the 10Gb Intel network cards? I compare the man page, both man(4) ixgb and man(4) ix as well as the hardware section and looked at the data from Intel to find more in trying to answer that question. But I am