XR997 - only 1 gbit?

[virman]

Hi.

I got small question regarding drivers (or sth else) about XR997 dell 10gbit interface. I tried to set up my nas4free with this interface but even i do set up link between two 10gbit cards directly (10gbit broadcom on r805 and XR997) with cat6 patchcord, i'm getting 1 gbit link.. at least that is what led's colors indicating - is there a way to set up network speed? I did not saw any option in dropdown to choose 10 gbit.. and i don;t know how to determine actual speed in freebsd ..

Any help apreciated.

[al562]

Hi Virman,

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is there a way to set up network speed?

Please see ifconfig but this will only help if your hardware is supported at that speed by FreeBSD 9.0.

Thanks,
Al

[virman]

Sorry - i forgot (newbie thing.)

I'm now migrating from freenas 8.3 due to performace issues (i hope it will be better here)

i have setup with 9.1.0.1 - Sandstorm (revision 531) release (today installed) and set of disks (published as single volumes from megaraid , and normal sata ports (10 disks 1 tb wd blacks) x64-embedded on AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
+ Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA69GM-S2H Bios: F6 12/29/2008. 16 GB ram etc..

ifconfig shows only actual speed , and ethtool does not work..

Does anyone used 10gbit with nas4free ?

[al562]

ifconfig shows only actual speed

And lets you change it like this:

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 Configure the interface xl0, to use 100baseTX, full duplex Ethernet media options:
	   # ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

If the driver allows.

Does anyone used 10gbit with nas4free ?

Yes there are some people doing it, but most of the problems we see are with Realtek NICs or cabling. Is your NIC listed in the hardware compatibility lists?

Later,
Al

[daoyama]

Hi,

I don't know your card, but in my case it have only auto and 10Gbase-Twinax.
What result on your card?

BTW, did you check the cards with CAT6A or CAT7 cable?
Sorry, I don't know UTP cable. I'm using SFP+ Direct Attach cable only.

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[root@aria ~]# ifconfig -m ix0
ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 9000
        options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
        capabilities=505bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,LRO,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether 00:1b:21:57:b4:24
        inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe57:b424%ix0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.20.0.26 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.20.255.255
        inet6 2001:3e0:6cf:20:21b:21ff:fe57:b424 prefixlen 64
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-Twinax <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 10Gbase-Twinax

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[root@aria ~]# ifconfig ix0
ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 9000
        options=401bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether 00:1b:21:57:b4:24
        inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe57:b424%ix0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.20.0.26 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.20.255.255
        inet6 2001:3e0:6cf:20:21b:21ff:fe57:b424 prefixlen 64
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-Twinax <full-duplex>)
        status: active