Hello. So I've bought a SFP+ 10gbps switch with 2.5GbE ports. When I connect my NIC () to the switch, i run ifconfig and the media it's not 10Gbits or something similar but rather unknown:
I get 10gbps connection. Yes, but the media isn't detected, why is this? Here's the info about the NIC
thanks
Code:
ix0: flags=1008943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=a538b9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS>
ether 5c:b9:01:8b:67:14
inet 192.168.1.230 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet 192.168.1.166 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.166
inet 192.168.1.182 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet 192.168.1.173 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::5eb9:1ff:fe8b:6714%ix0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 2a0c:5a82:e502:d200:5eb9:1ff:fe8b:6714 prefixlen 64 autoconf
media: Ethernet autoselect (Unknown <rxpause,txpause>)
status: active
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
I get 10gbps connection. Yes, but the media isn't detected, why is this? Here's the info about the NIC
Code:
~ [icarus] % pciconf -lv | grep -C 4 -i ix
ix0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x10fb subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x17d0
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
ix1@pci0:4:0:1: class=0x020000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x10fb subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x17d0
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
thanks