Author: Trond Endrestøl

Boot messages for stable/11:

t6nex0: <Chelsio T6225-CR> mem 0xfac80000-0xfacfffff,0xf9000000-0xf9ffffff,0xfaff6000-0xfaff7fff irq 16 at device 0.4 on pci6
t6nex0: firmware on card (1.16.63.0) is older than the version bundled with this driver, installing firmware 1.19.1.0 on card.
cc0: <port 0> on t6nex0
cc0: Ethernet address: 00:07:43:XX:XX:X0
cc0: 4 txq, 4 rxq (NIC); 4 txq, 2 rxq (TOE)
cc1: <port 1> on t6nex0
cc1: Ethernet address: 00:07:43:XX:XX:X8
cc1: 4 txq, 4 rxq (NIC); 4 txq, 2 rxq (TOE)
t6nex0: PCIe gen2 x4, 2 ports, 14 MSI-X interrupts, 31 eq, 13 iq
pci6: <mass storage, SCSI> at device 0.5 (no driver attached)
pci6: <serial bus, Fibre Channel> at device 0.6 (no driver attached)

Output from ifconfig:

cc0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=ec07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 00:07:43:XX:XX:X0
        hwaddr 00:07:43:XX:XX:X0
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet 25GBase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>
        status: no carrier
cc1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=ec07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 00:07:43:XX:XX:X8
        hwaddr 00:07:43:XX:XX:X8
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet 25GBase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>
        status: no carrier

None of the ports are connected. I’m waiting for SFP⁺ modules to arrive.

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I recently ordered a Chelsio T6225-CR network interface card and a couple of SM25G-SR SFP28 optical modules.

The aim is to get a 10 Gbit/s connection to the LAN, utilise the off-load capabilities of the NIC, and of course utilise the on-board crypto accelerator. The latter will not be useable until the system moves to the upcoming stable/12 branch.

Speaking of stable/12, I look forward to encrypted crash dumps and linear ZFS scrubbing.

I hope both OpenSSH and OpenSSL will be able to use the crypto accelerator by ways of crypto(4). Imagine a crypto speed in excess of 30 Gbit/s. That’s pretty neat. If all goes well, another T6225-CR may find its way to a VPN router.