On 2024-10-04, Jan Klemkow <j...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> 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?
or Finisar usually work in ixl, or something intel-coded (fs.com,
flexoptix, etc).
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