Re: Splitting Mellanox ConnectX-4 interface using breakout cables

2017-09-13 Thread Matt Joras
On Sep 13, 2017 6:43 AM, "David Horn" wrote: I was under the impression that these Mellanox 40G->4x10G breakout cables were for the Mellanox switch side (not Mellanox NIC) to provide more flexible utilization options for the switch. I have never heard of doing this from the 40G NIC (on any OS).

Re: Splitting Mellanox ConnectX-4 interface using breakout cables

2017-09-13 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 13.09.2017 16:43, David Horn wrote: > I was under the impression that these Mellanox 40G->4x10G breakout > cables were for the Mellanox switch side (not Mellanox NIC) to provide > more flexible utilization options for the switch. I have never heard of > doing this from the 40G NIC (on any OS).

Re: Splitting Mellanox ConnectX-4 interface using breakout cables

2017-09-13 Thread David Horn
I was under the impression that these Mellanox 40G->4x10G breakout cables were for the Mellanox switch side (not Mellanox NIC) to provide more flexible utilization options for the switch. I have never heard of doing this from the 40G NIC (on any OS). Please reply if you have seen this working on

Splitting Mellanox ConnectX-4 interface using breakout cables

2017-09-13 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
Hi All, we are wondering, is it possible to use such configuration under FreeBSD? I.e. split one mce interface 40G => 4x10G or 100G => 4x25G? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature