Re: Generic SFP+ recognition in Intel based Hotlava Cards Open BSD 5.6 / 5.7 beta

2015-02-24 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi guys Couple of issues that compounded them selves to make diagnostics 1) bad patching at provider side meant a link was impossible 2) Buggy Network Appliance running proprietary software indicated a Link was present (when there was not a link) (bad Control test) Once those were resolved I

Generic SFP+ recognition in Intel based Hotlava Cards Open BSD 5.6 / 5.7 beta

2015-01-20 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Lads, I was building an intel server with 2x 6 Port SFP+ Hotlava Intel based 10GbE cards, running on 2x Intel E5 v2 6 core Xeon CPUs and with 24 GB Ram It appears that the OpenBSD detects them with the ix(4) driver however when I plug in a generic SFP+ Module ( MikroTIiK SFP+ 10km 1310 nm Si