Support for Intel x520-LR1 10GB Single Mode Fiber card?

[KevinM]

I have a Supermicro e1r36n running FreeNAS 8.3.1 and parts are arriving for another unit to be a backup host for the first. The second system will be about 300m from the production box. We have some unused single-mode fiber between the two locations, so I found this 10GB X520-LR1 82599ES-based NIC on Intel's website: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/product-brief/ethernet-x520-server-adapters-brief.pdf

While the FreeBSD 8.3 hardware notes http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.3R/hardware.html#ETHERNET does not list this card, the ixgbe driver description on the Intel site
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/De...g=eng&OSVersion=FreeBSD*&DownloadType=Drivers says it supports all x520-based cards.

What I'm wondering is if the ixgbe driver that comes with FreeNAS 8.3.1 natively supports the Intel X520-LR1. I'd like to know what I'm in for before dropping 2x $1000+...

 

[dlavigne]

ixgbe(4) doesn't say. If you do a test install, let us know if the card works. If it does, we'll submit a PR to get that manpage updated.

 

[KevinM]

ixgbe(4) doesn't say. If you do a test install, let us know if the card works. If it does, we'll submit a PR to get that manpage updated.

Ok, thanks for following up. I will report back if I get the cards. At worst I'd have to build a FreeBSD 8.3 VM to build the current driver, but with any luck the cards will work out of the box.

 

[cyberjock]

And if your card doesn't work you could reinforce this ticket (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/2451) to hopefully give it enough priority to be applied in the next build.

 

[KevinM]

And if your card doesn't work you could reinforce this ticket (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/2451) to hopefully give it enough priority to be applied in the next build.

I can confirm that the x520-lr1 works with 8.3.2.

ping -c 4 -s 8972 10.2.250.17​

PING 10.2.250.17 (10.2.250.17): 8972 data bytes​

8980 bytes from 10.2.250.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.433 ms​

8980 bytes from 10.2.250.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.808 ms​

8980 bytes from 10.2.250.17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.447 ms​

8980 bytes from 10.2.250.17: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.411 ms​

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--- 10.2.250.17 ping statistics ---​

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss​

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.411/1.525/1.808/0.164 ms​