High Throughput and Offloading Performance

10gbe network cards

Good cards

obviously you need to avoid two types of 10Gbe cards

• the low-cost and end-user market Asus & friends flavors
• smart-cards which are partly software-driven

also one could also consider DPDK or something similar for advanced usage like DPI

incl.

• axgbe (AMD EPYC™ Embedded 3000 family)
• bnxt (NetXtreme-C, NetXtreme-E, NetXtreme-S, StrataGX)
• cxgbe (Terminator 5, Terminator 6)

Driver support

freebsd

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap –> SUPPORTED DEVICES

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/hardware/ –> search for “ASIC”

chelsio https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cxgbe

broadcom https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bnxt

intel https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ixgbe

dfly

intel https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=ix

nbsd

intel https://man.netbsd.org/ixg.4 https://man.netbsd.org/ixv.4

intel https://man.netbsd.org/ixl.4 https://man.netbsd.org/iavf.4

obsd

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20051115082912

linux

anything incl.

• broadcom
• Myricom
• intel

Resources

10Gb NICs for Linux/FreeBSD - Intel X540-T2 vs Mellanox Connect-X2 vs Mellanox Connect-X3? https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/97222j/10gb_nics_for_linuxfreebsd_intel_x540t2_vs/

Top Picks for FreeNAS NICs (Networking) https://www.servethehome.com/buyers-guides/top-hardware-components-freenas-nas-servers/top-picks-freenas-nics-networking/

10Gb Ethernet NIC PCIe recommendation https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/10gb-ethernet-nic-pcie-recommendation.76442/

cards

https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12381557

https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/network-adapters/10gb-nic-ocp/p210p

dpdk

http://core.dpdk.org/supported/nics/

http://core.dpdk.org/supported/nics/broadcom/

drivers

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/recommendations-for-a-10gb-network-card-4175471913/