VyOS 1.2 and Solarflare SFN7122F

General questions
1

Hi there,

By now our company testing possible VyOS implementation as network load balancer, and by now in our sandbox based on rolling release of VyOS. As we expect quite high-bandwidth, we are trying to maximize system performance and tune system up. Firstly, our configuration was based on dual-port Intel X520 network card, and we haven’t expected any issues with that. But we haven’t stop with that, and want to compare it to Solarflare SFN7122F performance, as it stands for one of the best TCP offload capable Linux-optimized NICs. Rolling release of VyOS just doesn’t want to work with this NIC, our attempts to compile in integrate Solarflare’s Debian driver was unsuccessful, system don’t want to recognize our card.

Maybe someone expected same kind of issue, and solved it, could you share your experience?

Does VyOS 1.2. Stable Release have necessary driver for SFN7122F?

Thanks in advance,

Anton

2

Should work without any issues, the sfc kernel native drivers are on board.

filename: /lib/modules/4.19.20-amd64-vyos/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/sfc.ko
version: 4.1
license: GPL
description: Solarflare network driver
author: Solarflare Communications and Michael Brown mbrown@fensystems.co.uk
srcversion: D973059C5325685D930550D
depends: mdio
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: sfc
vermagic: 4.19.20-amd64-vyos SMP mod_unload modversions

and

filename: /lib/modules/4.19.20-amd64-vyos/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/sfc-falcon.ko
version: 4.1
license: GPL
description: Solarflare Falcon network driver
author: Solarflare Communications and Michael Brown mbrown@fensystems.co.uk
srcversion: 1E0F272A726D25A3D5952EB
depends: mdio,i2c-algo-bit
retpoline: Y
intree: Y
name: sfc_falcon

I think the sfc module should work, but I never tested it.

3

No plans for SolarFlare support except what stock kernel ships