Hi,
I'm trying to use the ixgbe (10Gb) driver in a FreeBSD virtual machine on an
esxi 5 using DirectPath (PCI Passthrough) and the card is detected, but I can't
get a link (status: no carrier)
ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.3.11> mem
0xd2420000-0xd243ffff,0xd2400000-0xd2403fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci3
ix0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
ether 00:e0:ed:1c:99:4e
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
I have also tested with XenServer 6, using SR-IOV (ixgbevf driver) with the
same result: the driver is loading, but no link detected.
In both case (VMWare DirectPath and XenServer SR-IOV), I tested Linux with
success.
The card is an Intel 82599EB, the motherboard is an Intel X58 (supermicro
X8ST3) with a Xeon W3680 and I've tested FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0
I've found a forum thread with the same issue:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29855 and no answer :)
Please find in attachment the dmesg (boot -v) with the ix driver compiled with
DEBUG flags using vmware.
Can anyone provide feedback about this issue ?
Regards,
Rémi Pauchet
