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justinclift 5 days ago [-]
Useful for anyone using FreeBSD with one of the 10GbE chipsets, as commonly found in minipcs these days.
This driver seems to be working well for people. :)
amelius 12 hours ago [-]
Shouldn't AI be smart enough now to translate drivers from Linux to FreeBSD? It's mostly plumbing after all.
AdrianB1 11 hours ago [-]
No, AI is anything but "smart". And my understanding is that the network stack is so well done in FreeBSD that it is a shame to touch it with AI code.
amelius 10 hours ago [-]
Well it doesn't cost much to try it, and you can always replace it by a handcrafted version later.
quietsegfault 9 hours ago [-]
It cost me my weekly Claude usage! I was on Claude timeout for like 4 days.
quietsegfault 9 hours ago [-]
I had one of these interfaces and the driver kept freezing in Linux. Me ‘n Claude were not able to figure out why. Super sad.
WarOnPrivacy 5 days ago [-]
10GBe cards with these start at $55 on Amazon.
AdrianB1 10 hours ago [-]
Just curious, most people that use FreeBSD are either experts or hardcode enthusiasts. It used to include FreeNAS/TrueNAS users, but they migrated to Linux as the product moved to Linux. That means the users of FreeBSD are not the ones I would expect to purchase and use these controllers, but other options like 10 Gbps with SFP+ (AOC or Fiber Optic) or even 25Gbps and higher. Is there a significant demand for this driver? A 10 Gbps SFP+ card is cheaper and more flexible, I have a few in several computers and even a few laying around as spares, they are also more compatible with all sorts of OS-es and usually more capable.
adrian_b 3 hours ago [-]
I use cards like those described by you (with DAC cables) for connections between FreeBSD servers (actually between servers, regardless if they run FreeBSD or Linux).
However, I also need to connect some desktop/laptop PCs to a FreeBSD server, either for management or for transferring backups, where a cheaper Aquantia NIC is perfectly adequate, especially when the PC has only a 2.5 Gb/s or 5 Gb/s Ethernet interface.
In the past, I had to buy an Intel server NIC for one of my FreeBSD servers, despite the fact that I had a spare Aquantia NIC that would have worked fine, due to this driver problem.
I was not happy about it, so I am glad to hear now that a working driver is available.
justinclift 8 hours ago [-]
Quite a lot of popular, widely deployed firewalls are based upon FreeBSD.
And for them it's a problem that miniPCs well suited for firewall use have been been coming out (for a while now) using this chipset. Which FreeBSD didn't support.
So for those projects, this may provide an avenue of hope or future potential. ;)
This driver seems to be working well for people. :)
However, I also need to connect some desktop/laptop PCs to a FreeBSD server, either for management or for transferring backups, where a cheaper Aquantia NIC is perfectly adequate, especially when the PC has only a 2.5 Gb/s or 5 Gb/s Ethernet interface.
In the past, I had to buy an Intel server NIC for one of my FreeBSD servers, despite the fact that I had a spare Aquantia NIC that would have worked fine, due to this driver problem.
I was not happy about it, so I am glad to hear now that a working driver is available.
And for them it's a problem that miniPCs well suited for firewall use have been been coming out (for a while now) using this chipset. Which FreeBSD didn't support.
So for those projects, this may provide an avenue of hope or future potential. ;)