Mellanox 10gb driver?

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 08/29/14 15:23, Mark Saad wrote:
>
>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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>> hi all,
>> I managed to have the card recognised, now working is a different story :-)
>> It sort of works, the console is full of:
>>
>> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
>> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
>> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
>> ...
>>
>> killing dhclient got rid of that.
>>
>> maybe the fact that my card is an ‘engineering sample’  have any thing to do?
>> without dhclient, and not diskless it seems to be doing ok.
>> also, I can’t get it working with a 15m Twinax
>>
>
> I ran into an issue with intel 10gb cards where the twinax cables from Cisco would not work with the intel nics .  You issue could be related , double check the twinax cables are supported . Truth be told it's the integrated sfp+ that is the issue .
>
> --
> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
>

FYI:

Snapshot of coming MLXEN FreeBSD driver for those that want to try:
> http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=193&mtag=freebsd_driver

--HPS