From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 21:21:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52993106564A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:21:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061688FC14 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 21:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9180D28427; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 23:21:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (static-84-242-120-26.net.upcbroadband.cz [84.242.120.26]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C000828423; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 23:21:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FCE786A.2030205@quip.cz> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:21:46 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sebastian Stach References: <4FCE37FC.1090405@gmail.com> <878874BA-2F5C-4A7E-8690-2A8A96536AE0@t-online.de> <4FCE6931.6010901@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: em interfaces supermicro X9SCM-F board X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:21:49 -0000 Sebastian Stach wrote: > I just need to run a tool like iperf and let it run. After about 1-2 hours my nic will just hang > without any messages. I can't even ping the machine anymore. I also installed Solaris to check > if it's maybe a FreeBSD problem but it's the same there. > > The support told me that they know about problems with the nics and the BIOS version 2.0 > but that the new update should fix it. > > Which BIOS version do you have? The board had BIOS 1.1a with build date 2011-09-28 so I updated it to version 2.0 with build date 2012-05-08. I am preparing iperf test so I will let you know tomorrow about results. One question - are you using dedicated management port or shared with Intel NIC? Miroslav Lachman > Am 05.06.2012 um 22:16 schrieb Miroslav Lachman: > >> There is a differenc between X9SCM-F and X9SCA-F. The SCM version has 82579V and 82574L NIC, but X9SCA-F has both NICs 82574L. >> And as I read about some problems with 82579V on the net, I bought X9SCA-F few weeks ago. >> I didn't notice any problem. >> >> Can you describe the conditions when you have some network problems so I can do some tests? >> >> I am running FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE for testing, not heavily loaded. >> >> Miroslav Lachman