Experiences w/ 10Gb Ethernet and FreeBSD?

Tue Apr 22 14:47:11 PDT 2008

At ${WORK}, we're thinking of using some 10Gb Ethernet stuff in the
build infrastructure.

As our build machines run FreeBSD, selecting a NIC that works well
under FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE, ideally, though we're working on clearing
the last known hurdles toward adoption of 6.3 & 7.0) is important.

By poking around a bit, I came up with:

First, adaptors supported in FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x, and 8:

Driver	First_Commit	Last_Commit	Description
cxgb	14 Mar 2007	19 Apr 2008	Chelsio T3 10 Gigabit Ethernet
ixgb	28 May 2004	16 May 2006	Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Family
mxge	19 Feb 2006	02 Apr 2008	Myricom 10GbE mode PCI-express NICs

Then, adaptors supported only on FreeBSD 7.x and 8:
ixgbe	12 Jul 2007	28 Nov 2007	Intel 10G PCI-Express Dual Port Network adapter (82598)
inxge	29 Jun 2007	02 Nov 2007	Neterion Xframe-I and Xframe-II adaptors

Indirection would be OK, too; please feel free to relay the query
elsewhere.

Comments?  Thoughts?  Warnings?

Thanks!

Peace,
david
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