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Old 29th July 2011
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Update: 7/29/2011

I have secured a sun fire x4170 PCI-e based machine for my next firewall.
Have installed a 10gigE dual port Intel X520-DA2 adapter, which OBSD 4.9
is detecting fine in the AMD64 build.

I was thinking about trying the SolarFlare card, but it doesnt look like
they have a stable driver yet... theres really only a beta freeBSD driver so far.
So I'll stick with the Intel card for now.

I've plugged it in to the switch and am seeing traffic w/tcpdump on the 10gigE port. Havent set up the bridge yet, but am planning to put this baby between my Extreme Summit x650 24-port 10gigE switch and one of my file servers as a test.

Thanks for the responses here.... there is much deep tech knowledge on this board and I am grateful for the help. Would still enjoy hearing anyone elses' stories about setting up 10gigE bridges with openbsd. Will share more as I progress on this project.

Matt
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