Chris Siebenmann

@thatcks Which Intel 10G part (Cc: @rmustacc)? X540 (You did say 10G-T...)?

@kebesays One of two motherboard ports on a SuperMicro X9SRH-7TF MB. They get reported as X540-AT2 controllers under Linux. @rmustacc

@thatcks @rmustacc That's odd. Illumos has supported X540 for a while. I don't have the HW access I used to, but that should've just worked.

@kebesays @rmustacc It's a really odd situation. It happens in the BIOS too (pre-CentOS) and it only happens on some of the MBs.

@thatcks @rmustacc We may be due for some ixgbe updating, but given how you describe it, I'm not sure if even that would help. Thanks.

@kebesays @thatcks @rmustacc this is a bit stupid but here goes: switch your bios to EFI & try the tools from the efi shell…

@sevanjaniyan @kebesays @rmustacc To be clear: as far as we can tell, booting CentOS on the hardware once is enough to permanently fix it.

@thatcks Surely they could use our drivers if they wanted. OmniOS is GPL, right?

@thatcks Maybe it turns on WoL using some defaults, thereby forcing the NIC to keep the link up?