For the Community Documentation on the inter-webs and Google searches - For about a month or two, I was trying to figure out exactly which platform the Chelsio 10GB Opt Card, part number 110-1088-30 was built on, and if it was supported under FreeBSD.
I suspected it was an N320, but could not confirm it. Chelsio's site didn’t even have any cross reference for this part number. There are various eBay auctions for these cards, with some PCB variants, running at the $25-35 range, which would seem to be a steal for a dual ported 10Gbps ethernet card. So, I broken down and purchased one of these part number 110-1088-30 PCIe 10Gb “Opt Cards”. - http://www.ebay.com/itm/351719918339 In fact, this does appears to be the Terminator 3 ASIC platform (T3). I assume this was later rebranded/rev’ed by Chelsio to the T3 Unified Wire collection under product name “N320”. But can’t find any references or documentation to confirm this. I don’t know how to probe FreeBSD to check the PCIe sync up. However, I believe it is a PCIe 1.1 x8 device. This means the PCIe x8 bus maxes out at 16 Gbps. However, it appears that the T3 version on this card maxes out at about 11 Gbps (~5.5 Gbps each port with iperf when lighting up both ports at the same time). This card - even as the N320, the marketing material lists this as a failover/HA card, not intended for a 20 Gbps LAG. I also found some new, Finisar SFP+ SR optics on eBay for about $18-20/each. Combined with some fiber from mono price. For about $50, this feels like a pretty good and cheap solution for cheap 10Gbps connectivity for home labs/NASes - with a really good and well supported brand/card. (** This should work in FreeNAS, at least by the kernel, too - the cxgb(4) support has been around for a long time ! *** ) Hopefully someone at some point down the road, finds this info useful. === pciconf -lv === cxgbc0@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00011425 chip=0x00311425 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Chelsio Communications Inc' device = 'T320 10GbE Dual Port Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet == dmesg, verbose boot === pcib8: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 pcib0: allocated type 3 (0xd8300000-0xd83fffff) for rid 20 of pcib8 pcib8: domain 0 pcib8: secondary bus 8 pcib8: subordinate bus 8 pcib8: memory decode 0xd8300000-0xd83fffff pcib8: special decode ISA pci8: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib8 pcib8: allocated bus range (8-8) for rid 0 of pci8 pci8: domain=0, physical bus=8 found-> vendor=0x1425, dev=0x0031, revid=0x00 domain=0, bus=8, slot=0, func=0 class=02-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0147, statreg=0x0010, cachelnsz=8 (dwords) lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns) intpin=a, irq=7 powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 MSI supports 32 messages, 64 bit MSI-X supports 32 messages in map 0x20 map[10]: type Memory, range 64, base 0xd8301000, size 12, enabled pcib8: allocated memory range (0xd8301000-0xd8301fff) for rid 10 of pci0:8:0:0 map[20]: type Memory, range 64, base 0xd8300000, size 12, enabled pcib8: allocated memory range (0xd8300000-0xd8300fff) for rid 20 of pci0:8:0:0 pcib8: matched entry for 8.0.INTA pcib8: slot 0 INTA hardwired to IRQ 16 cxgbc0: <Chelsio T320, 2 ports> mem 0xd8301000-0xd8301fff,0xd8300000-0xd8300fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 cxgbc0: attempting to allocate 9 MSI-X vectors (32 supported) msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 258 to local APIC 0 vector 54 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 259 to local APIC 0 vector 55 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 260 to local APIC 0 vector 56 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 261 to local APIC 0 vector 57 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 262 to local APIC 0 vector 58 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 263 to local APIC 0 vector 59 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 264 to local APIC 0 vector 60 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 265 to local APIC 0 vector 61 msi: routing MSI-X IRQ 266 to local APIC 0 vector 62 cxgbc0: using IRQs 258-266 for MSI-X cxgbc0: using MSI-X interrupts (9 vectors) cxgb0: <Port 0 10GBASE-R> on cxgbc0 cxgb0: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048 cxgb0: bpf attached cxgb0: Ethernet address: 00:07:43:0a:a0:84 cxgb1: <Port 1 10GBASE-R> on cxgbc0 cxgb1: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048 cxgb1: bpf attached cxgb1: Ethernet address: 00:07:43:0a:a0:85 cxgbc0: Firmware Version 7.11.0 ======== - David P. Discher http://davidpdischer.com/
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