Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/29/2015 9:51 AM, Matthew Lagoe wrote: The intel cards are nice but they don't have any cx4 cards so we don't use them. Copper connections have less latency on short links then fiber as you don't have the electric to optical conversion (when done properly) Do yourself a huge favor and go

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 07:40 AM To: Doug Hughes Cc: omnios-discuss Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Matthew Lagoe
...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Richard Elling Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 07:40 AM To: Doug Hughes Cc: omnios-discuss Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: any recommendations? We're having some

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Stephan Budach
*To:* omnios-discuss *Subject:* [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We eliminated LACP as a culprit, and the switch. Intel? Chelsio? other? - Doug

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Jeff Stockett
...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25 AM To: omnios-discuss Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Mason
On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We eliminated LACP as a culprit, and the switch. Intel? Chelsio? other? I’ve had a pretty good

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Dan McDonald
Generally speaking the Intel ones are preferable, because Intel does the best job of keeping those drivers up to date for all open-source platforms. Just pushed into illumos, and coming soon to r151014 is OPEN-SOURCE support for Broadcom NetXtreme II (now owned by QLogic) 10GigE (the bnxe

[OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Doug Hughes
any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We eliminated LACP as a culprit, and the switch. Intel? Chelsio? other? - Doug___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Doug Hughes
Thanks guys! (also, if anybody has some advice or contrary experience with SolarFlare (5162), I'd love to hear it. Right now they are pretty much unusable under load, though iperf tends to work fine. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: The Intel X520's

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Harman
...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25 AM To: omnios-discuss Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Matthew Lagoe
I use the myricom 10g cards (myri10g) they work just fine. From: OmniOS-discuss [mailto:omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 09:25 AM To: omnios-discuss Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any