Norleif
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- Apr 13, 2012
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Here I was thinking I could get into the 10Gbit goodnes for cheap, getting myself a pair of these IBM NetXTREME II cards from eBay, including optics and everything...
I think they're simply re-badged Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57710 cards, and should be supported by the bxe(4) driver.
I plugged one into each of my FreeNAS boxes (as I got about 9 TB I'd like to replicate from one to the other) and fired them up.
I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary when booting, and in the Network/Interfaces menu I had the option to add a new interface on bxe0 which I did, giving them static IPs in their own subnet.
Problem is, they don't respond to pings ether direction. Or anything else I've tried.
I can see the activity led on both cards blinking away in synch with the ping packets, but no response is ever received.
I've tested the cards in a pair of Windows7 machines and they work just fine. Throughput was limited to about 530MBytes/s by the Samsung 850PRO SSDs and not the NICs.
Also tried one card in Freenas and the other in Win7 but no joy (or ping reply).
One weird thing is the FreeNAS (bxe0 configured for DHCP) got an IP address from the Win7 box, but still no ping replies or anything else.
I can see the DHCP packets going back and forth in Microsoft Network Monitor (packet sniffer) and a bunch of ARP packets going back and forth, but they don't seem to be parsed...?
I'm not really big on UNIX/Linux but I can copy-and-paste shell commands as good as anyone, so I tried "sysctl -a | grep dev.bxe" as per the bxe(4) docs and got a screen full of stuff I don't understand, so I piped it into the attached text file hoping someone might get more out of it then me...
If you have more shell commands you'd want me to copy-and-paste just let me know.
Both FreeNAS boxes are running FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x64 (e625626), one on a Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G620 @ 2.60GHz with 12GB RAM and the other on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 V2 @ 3.20GHz with 32GB RAM.
I think they're simply re-badged Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57710 cards, and should be supported by the bxe(4) driver.
I plugged one into each of my FreeNAS boxes (as I got about 9 TB I'd like to replicate from one to the other) and fired them up.
I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary when booting, and in the Network/Interfaces menu I had the option to add a new interface on bxe0 which I did, giving them static IPs in their own subnet.
Problem is, they don't respond to pings ether direction. Or anything else I've tried.
I can see the activity led on both cards blinking away in synch with the ping packets, but no response is ever received.
I've tested the cards in a pair of Windows7 machines and they work just fine. Throughput was limited to about 530MBytes/s by the Samsung 850PRO SSDs and not the NICs.
Also tried one card in Freenas and the other in Win7 but no joy (or ping reply).
One weird thing is the FreeNAS (bxe0 configured for DHCP) got an IP address from the Win7 box, but still no ping replies or anything else.
I can see the DHCP packets going back and forth in Microsoft Network Monitor (packet sniffer) and a bunch of ARP packets going back and forth, but they don't seem to be parsed...?
I'm not really big on UNIX/Linux but I can copy-and-paste shell commands as good as anyone, so I tried "sysctl -a | grep dev.bxe" as per the bxe(4) docs and got a screen full of stuff I don't understand, so I piped it into the attached text file hoping someone might get more out of it then me...
If you have more shell commands you'd want me to copy-and-paste just let me know.
Both FreeNAS boxes are running FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x64 (e625626), one on a Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G620 @ 2.60GHz with 12GB RAM and the other on Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 V2 @ 3.20GHz with 32GB RAM.
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