Thanks, Jan & Stuart -- I'll grab some more likely intel compatible
transceivers and give them a shot.
I appreciate the pointers.
weaver
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024, at 04:32, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 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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