decent 40G network adapters

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 01/18/2017 12:48 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Could someone recommend a decent 40Gbit adapter that are proven to be
> working under FreeBSD ? The intended purpose - iSCSI traffic, not much
> pps, but rates definitely above 10G. I've tried Supermicro-manufactured
> Intel XL710 ones (two boards, different servers - same sad story:
> packets loss, server unresponsive, spikes), seems like they have a
> problem in a driver (or firmware), and though Intel support states this
> is because the Supermicro tampered with the adapter, I'm still
> suspicious about ixl(4). I've also seen in the ML a guy reported the
> exact same problem with ixl(4) as I have found.
>
> So, what would you say ? Chelsio ?
Hi,

Solarflare SFN8542 with sfxge driver will do the job

Andrew.

> Thanks.
> Eugene.
>
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