Hi Matthew,
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 01:52:11PM -0500, matthew j weaver wrote:
> Howdy, all. I'm having basic trouble with some ixl(4) interfaces and
> cannot figure out what I am overlooking.
>
> The hardware is an Intel X710 SFP+ card with two interfaces. I cannot
> seem to get the interfaces to achieve carrier link. The interfaces are
> always status: no carrier. I've tried a few transceivers, cables, different
> equipment on the far end, to no avail.
>
> The transceivers and cables currently set up have worked fine in
> other hardware.
>
> Install is OpenBSD 7.5, dmesg is below.
>
> For ease of experiment, I've put matching transceivers into the two
> interfaces, connected by an appropriate cable. Even in this
> configuration I can't get link, as can be seen here in output from
> ifconfig ixl{0,1} transceiver:
>
> -----
> ixl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> lladdr 40:a6:b7:b3:4b:28
> index 1 priority 0 llprio 3
> media: Ethernet autoselect
> status: no carrier
> transceiver: SFP LC, 850 nm, 300m OM1, 300m OM2, 600m OM3
> model: Ubiquiti Inc. OM-MM-10G-D rev A1
This kind of transceiver may incompatible with Intel NICs.
Do you have Intel-Transceivers to verify that?
bye,
jan
