[OmniOS-discuss] Dell R720 & Broadcom ethernet

Dale Ghent daleg at omniti.com
Thu Dec 26 19:55:08 UTC 2013



Broadcomm does have GLDv3 drivers for "Solaris" - whether it'll work on Illumos derivatives would be a quick and easy experiment with hopefully favorable results.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii10.php

/dale

On Dec 26, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Scott Roberts <scotty at jhu.edu> wrote:

> Saso,
> 
> It has the following:
> 
> Broadcom 57800 2x10Gb DA/SFP+ + 2x1Gb BT Network Daughter Card
> 
> Broadcom 57810 Dual Port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ Network Adapter
> 
> 
> Total of (2) GigE and (4) 10Gb SFP+ ports.
> 
> --Scott
> 
> On 12/26/13, 2:38 PM, "Saso Kiselkov" <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/26/13, 7:19 PM, Scott Roberts wrote:
>>> To be clear, neither the onboard Gigabit or 10Gig links are shown, only
>>> loopback, so running a pkg install fails.  I don't have any PCI ethernet
>>> cards to throw in this thing, either.  I'm pretty much dead in the
>>> water.
>>> 
>> 
>> Which NICs did you purchase this box with? Broadcom or Intel?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Saso
> 
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